When I took my first graduate methods course with Walter Mebane, we used
APL.
Ah, yeah, those were the days. "I can run a regression in ... 3 symbols!"
Dan Williams wrote:
> Fortran still exists? I thought it remained only in the scripting language
> of SAS (and, I suppose, SPSS). Next you will tell me that COBAL is still
> used for development. With small to medium size datasets you can do
> ANYTHING in a spreadsheet (I am talking thousands or even tens of thousands
> of observations these days). But the advantage of commercial or widely
> examined open source software is that you don't have to conduct a tedious
> audit of your math to be sure that your results are correct.
>
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