... will be eventually written in JavaScript. ~ Atwood's Law (circa 2007)

Flash does not in particular have a very good history with respect to its own development either. Everybody on *nix has observed this so much that this has become a cult phenomenon.

Moreover, the problem does not lie completely with *nix developers themselves. Case in point, it takes them months to fix their broken calls to memcpy which were:

Full story here.

Relevant part of the conversation:

> Subject: Re: FP-5739 "Strange sound on mp3 flash website with Fedora 14 x86_64"
>
> Hi Shu,
>
> That's is great to hear. Would you guess it's a matter of days, weeks or
> months before this can get fixed?
> If it will take a long time for you to fix this, Fedora may need to look
> at some way to work around this bug.
>
> Best regards,
> Magnus
>

> Hi Magnus,
>
> Maybe months. Thanks.
>
> Best regards.

Most new additions to R project are highly academic works, many coming from BioInformatics research as well.

However, some of the modules which people find really useful are rewritten by the core team, so one could say that they were not an output of the PhD/Masters.

In the larger scheme of things, the solutions by academics remain solutions for academic only until they are widely adopted. Then they permeated textbooks, and become the standard solutions of a useful problem. For this, there will exist a software (probably a rewrite) which has optimized it to within an inch of its life.

So the ideas behind the software live on, while the actual lines of code might not.

... he is one of the least crazy looking R candidates.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r2y2Bvj7Kf4/TWMIeamnuiI/AAAAAAAALj0/mhLIW75HrRs/s1600/rick%2Bperry%2Bgun.jpg

If you are interested in statistical analysis applied to your love-life, you should care to look at OkTrends as well.

And perhaps you should know that it may not be the best idea all the time.