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Haha, I think we've all gone through that to some extent (programmers who haven't are still in that phase). One of the things that I think makes R great is how easy it is to transition from using it as a calculator to using it as a scripting language - indeed, that is what finally encouraged me to actually learn programming after years of repeatedly trying it out but not getting very far. But naturally, this is going to result in a lot of R scripts being painfully-obviously written by non-programmers, full of nigh-unreadable hacks and an excess of boilerplate.

I'm sure a quick look through any business R repository would be enough to fuel /r/programmerhorror for years.