Re: st: Stata 10.1

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

At 06:16 PM 8/13/2008, Sergiy Radyakin wrote:
> Can help be subjected to version control too?
> E.g.
> http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?regress
> can show the current (last version) syntax of regress, while
>
> http://www.stata.com/help7.cgi?regress
> could show syntax of regress as in Version 7.
>
> http://www.stata.com/help8.cgi?regress
> could show syntax of regress as in Version 8.
I accomplish the same thing by keeping Stata 7, 8, 9 and 10 installed 
on my machine.  Next new computer though, something may give.

Because of version control, nothing ever becomes obsolete in Stata, 
although things do become undocumented.  For example, you have to do 
some hunting around to figure out that index (which I've seen in a 
lot of programs) is now strpos.  If the online help can't document 
these things, it would be nice to have a place to go on the 
web.  Maybe even just storing all the whatsnew documentation on the 
web would give people a fighting chance, e.g. ten years from now 
searching the whatsnew documentation would tell me that runiform 
replaced uniform on Aug 11, 2008.


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