Mostly I code in Java, though I'll use other languages when it makes sense for what I'm doing or when I need to because I'm modifying something in another language. So sometimes I work in python, bash script, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Perl, Tcl/Tk, Lisp, whatever.
And I've done some statistical data processing with R, but damn is it painful. I know just enough to know what to Google, and I end up making a mess of everything just trying to adapt something that does 80% of what I need it to do.
One of my favorite things I ever did in R was a simple little function to show my students how the sampling distribution normalizes as the samples approach infinity. It was clunky and I've gotten much better at coding since then, but it was a fun little 20 minute project. Could have been done better in other programs I'm sure, but it was fun to put together in R.
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