Re: st: Re: mata code

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 09:34 AM 7/7/2005 -0400, Kit Baum wrote:
> We might hope that the Stata Journal's regular "from the help desk" 
> feature will include some examples of how mata can be used to solve 
> econometric programming problems. That feature often is accompanied by 
> ado-file code, and one would hope that such articles -- which do not 
> discuss official Stata features -- might also present the mata source code 
> for the edification of user/programmers. It is a great advantage of Stata 
> that much of the code is exposed, and the best practices embodied therein 
> can be studied by user/programmers. It would be indeed unfortunate if a 
> larger and larger fraction of Stata's commands are made inscrutable by 
> means of mata (while giving efficiency and speed, removing the models by 
> which many of us have written add-ons to do what official Stata does not).
I agree very much with the sentiments expressed by Kit and Rob.  While I've 
hardly been a prolific contributor to SSC, what little I have written was 
plagiarized heavily (with attribution) from Stata ado files.  There may be 
some proprietary things Stata wants to protect (e.g. incredibly brilliant 
and efficient algorithms) but I hope that many Mata examples can somehow be 
made available.


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