On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:22:50 -0400 Kimberley Tran <[email protected]> wrote:
> If anyone has
> ever used either Shazam and Eviews please offer your comments about
> their capabilities as well.
I was once asked to port Shazam from IBM (32bit machine) to ICL (24bit
wordlength). The Shazam code started with this comment:
* This program is written in standard Fortran, except we assume you
* have access to absolute machine addresses.
As they say in the newspapers, at that point I made my excuses and left.
The experience has probably coloured my opinion of amateur programmers
- and econometricians - ever since!
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