Nick said
But I am surprised at the implication that
programmers summarising their programs are
somehow not trying to do that using appropriate
words. I've not yet interacted with any programmer
who wasn't aware of the need for that.
But many programmers (other than the estimable Nick Cox) do not provide
any textual description of their routine when they send it to me. In
those cases, I am inclined to grab the first paragraph of the help file
(presuming that it is descriptive) and use that, and make up something
for the package definition line FOO: Stata module that trips the
light fantastic etc., and keywords. If programmers have preferences
for what the title line, description and keywords should say on the SSC
Archive, they are invited to include them with their submission or
resubmission.
