The point is that the ability to extend the syntax of R leads to chaos and mess (in general) but when used correctly and effectively in the tidyverse, improves the experience of writing and reading code.
The reason you see a lot of scratches on Duralex glasses in cafés and canteens is because they are so old, having lasted an order of magnitude longer than other glassware.
There was a fifteen year period where the best way of finding out what something meant in a programming language was to Google it. Pre-AI, post the predominance of newsgroups and offline documentation.
Try googling "$|++". It just doesn't work. Never has.
Now Google "file.flush". First hit is the answer you need on SO.
Unless you're part of the demoscene or your webpage is being loaded by Voyager II, why is 70kb of source code a problem?
Not wanting to use well constructed, well tested, well distributed libraries to make code simpler and more robust is not motivated by any practical engineering concern. It's just nostalgia and fetishism.
I mean another theory is that those people are misguided and vexatious, and that this correlates with them not actually checking which Mark Zuckerberg they are sending their urgent complaint email to.
An easier way to evaluate sum i/10^i is by squaring sum 1/10^i
If you multiply term by term every term has coefficient 1 of course. There are n terms with exponent n+1, made from the n sums of the first exponent and the second exponent.
Eg 1+5, 2+4, 3+3, 4+2, 5+1.
So (1/9)^2 = (sum 1/10^i)^2 = 1/10 sum i/10^i
The derivative trick is more useful generally, but this method gets you the solution to 0.12345678.. in an quick way that's also easier to justify that it works.
Australians, Jamaicans, African Americans and English-speaking South Africans do not have their own Wikipedia, despite all these dialects having more legitimate demographic and linguistic claims to being languages than 'Scots'.
James Joyce wrote in English, no Irish person pretends that he wrote in a third language distinct from English and Irish. The fact that they do not do so does not compromise the political basis for independence, republicanism or reunification.
If a Cork taxi driver, addressed you in Irish (very unlikely), and you asked him to speak English, the request would be both coherent and reasonable. The point you missed is that the Glasgow taxi driver would look at you with consternation and say "But, I am speaking English! What's wrong with my English?' (insert dialect spelling if you like)
Rabbie Burns wrote in the same language as his compatriots Louis Stevenson and Scott.
It would be ignorant if I did not know about the meretricious claim of a minority of Scottish people to have their own language, but it is not ignorant to reject that claim. I am Scottish fwiw.