st: Re: GUI

[Kit Baum <kitbaum@mac.com>]

I agree with Buzz Burhans that while healthy criticism is one of the clear 
functions of this list, we cannot ignore StataCorp's need to sell their 
product. Many of my colleagues have a checklist that a package must satisfy 
for them to consider using it in teaching. Having the _capability_ to enter 
commands from a GUI is a must-have for many of them. Stata having that 
capability opens up a new market, and allows many to compare Stata, SPSS 
and SAS on a more level playing field, seeing how much easier Stata is to 
install and maintain (it takes one of our tech professionals hours to deal 
with the license mgr on Some Alternative Software).

That said, note that the critique

--On 27 February 2003 02:33 -0500 Fred wrote:


>  You can't move windows around very easily because of the
> demands of the new GUI interface;
is a platform limitation. You have always had this flexibility (and still 
do) under the MacOS GUI, and the Windows GUI has always imposed some 
limitations on StataCorp programmers. But that's not to say that StataCorp 
has not provided the flexibility where the underlying OS APIs allow them to 
do so. In other cases, they have added features to the Windows GUI that are 
not present in the Mac version.

Kit
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