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  "textContent": "Ross Ihaka and Duncan Temple Lang’s 2008 conference paper [1] (PDF) came to my attention via About Lisp-Stat | Lisp-Stat, and I wonder what happened leading to the (apparent?) abandonment of this idea. Does anybody know?\n\n  1. Ihaka R, Temple Lang D. Back to the Future: Lisp as a Base for a Statistical Computing System. In: Brito P, ed. _COMPSTAT 2008_. Physica-Verlag HD; 2008:21-33. doi:10.1007/978-3-7908-2084-3_2\n\n\n\n* * *",
  "title": "What became of Ihaka & Temple Lang's (2008) \"Back to the Future\"?"
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