st: re: What is the proper way of modifying user-created ado-files. .

[Christopher Baum <kitbaum@mac.com>]

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Roy said

Is it my imagination or have people stopped contributing anything  
really clever lately?
By my count of Stata items dated '2009' on
http://ideas.repec.org/s/boc/bocode.html
there are 105 new items in the SSC Archive this calendar year.  
Admittedly whether they are 'really clever' is in the eye of the  
beholder. As 11 of those new routines are written by Roy Wada, perhaps  
they exemplify the disappointing lack of cleverness that he decries.  
Or, alternatively, perhaps they are the only truly clever code among  
the 105, and the rest are soemwhat pedestrian and derivative works.
Although Roy's points about proper attribution are certainly well  
taken,  the hyperbole suggesting that user-programmers have recently  
been dissuaded from writing and sharing code via the SSC Archive due  
to failures of attribution (or any other cause) appears to be somewhat  
ludicrous, and hardly supported by empirical observation.
Kit


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