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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