On 1/23/09, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's just like the current myth, which some people like to believe (we
> all love good excuses), that you really can't learn Mata, because there
> is no NetCourse. Meanwhile, lots of users are happily writing Stata code
> with Mata components. How did they ever manage it without a book or a
> NetCourse? Well, sure, a NetCourse would make things easier, and a lot
> of people would sign up. But in the mean time there are two manuals. You
> just need to read them and experiment.
Ba-a-ah, who needs the manuals -- they are identical to the help
files. Bill Gould's Mata column in SJ -- that's what IS helpful
indeed.
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