FEIVESON, ALAN
>
> Phil, Buzz, Nick and others:
>
> OK - OK - I respectfully admit I am in a small minority (of
> one?). I just
> have one last question, then I'll be quiet about this topic:
>
> What percent of Stata Corp.'s resources were spent on the
> development of
> GUI, graphics, windowing, etc. for STata 8, as compared
> with the develpment
> of improved statistical modelling, estimation, etc.
> routines? Same question
> regarding SMCL in Stata 7.
One short answer is that only Stata Corp can answer
definitively.
But clearly the answer is "a lot". (We're precise
people on this list.)
I've heard the graphics project described as
Stata's biggest ever project.
And rightly so. Not that much work went into
graphics between Stata 2 (say) and Stata 8,
modulo the making public of -gph- in Stata 5.
The graphics push was long overdue. (And like
e.g. the Windows port about which many users
said the same thing, part of the reason was
that earlier projects were thrown out as just
not good enough to ship.)
In the long history of Stata between 1 (1985)
and 8 (2003) and (who knows) Stata 15 in
2021, which I may live to see, with its
100,000 page manual, I suspect that 8
will prove quite unusual in the long haul.
Nick
[email protected]
P.S. SMCL Makes Cooler Logs.
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