I am sympathetic to a lot of whimsy. However, more prosaically,
I have never experienced an instance in which a Stata
programmer changed the version number and left the
program otherwise entirely changed. Thus if you ignore
the evidence of version numbers, you ignore useful
evidence.
Nick
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roy wada replied to Richard Williams
> >My general experience has been that when there are multiple
> copies of a
> >program, the SSC version tends to be the most current
> (although that is not
> >guaranteed).
>
> What we had in outreg2 was an atavism, the unexpected appearance of a
> primitive trait after several generations of absence. With
> several versions
> of the program floating around, a throwback happens sometime,
> especially if
> you are mixing the codes.
>
> Darwinian selection does not seem to be working here, though,
> probably
> because no self-replication is involved. I wonder if .ado
> files can be made
> to act like a macro virus and if Bill G. ever wake up in the
> middle of the
> night worrying about it.
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