Re: [Gretl-devel] Signalling
This has been discussed before, but I think this criticism is just
mistaken.
The support for decimal comma in Gretl is just as good as the support in
Excel. Also, you deliberately changed focus from statistical packages to
spreadsheets. Which statistical scripting languages support localised
inputs?
“Let’s not kid ourselves: the most widely used piece of software for
statistics is Excel” –Ripley.
Not only that it is the most popular, but also there are many
textbooks for statistics as well as econometrics with Excel. So this
is a perfectly valid example and we do need to consider what makes
Excel, SPSS, Eviews popular if we are talking about how to make gretl
more popular.
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