Re: [Gretl-devel] Gretl's current standing

Erratum: "(...) Here at the bank where I work we migrated from EViews to GRETL last year and everyone had a very easy transition experience! (...)" Enviado via iPad Em 03/02/2012, às 19:00, Henrique Andrade <henrique.coelho(a)gmail.com&gt; escreveu: Em 3 de fevereiro de 2012 Talha escreveu: > First, I apologize if I have offended anyone in my earlier posts. I > have tremendous respect for everyone in this list and I would never > intend to do such things. Dear Talha, I think that discussions like that are usual when we are working as a team. Specially when people are seriously committed with the project - like us :-) > > (...) > > Since there is a high chance that some people will ask questions like > "Is gretl any better than Package X?" I wanted to pick your brain on > gretl's current standing in the _commercial_ competition. These people > are mostly familiar with Eviews, Stata, GAUSS, MATLAB, SAS, WinRATS > and mainly with Eviews and Stata. (I know some of these packages > should not be compared with gretl and I know the advantages of free > and open source software). > > I appreciate any comments and suggestions. I'm a Mac user (most of time) and a PC user. The main econometric softwares I use are Gretl (Mac and PC versions) and RATS (Mac version). Also, more eventually, I use EViews (only the GUI features) and Ox (the console version). Gretl is, by far, the most intuitive and user friendly. Here at the bank where I work we migrated from EViews to Windows last year and everyone had a very easy transition experience! More specifically talking: 1. The script editor is better than any other I know (syntax colouring     and the help system); 2. The data opening is extremely better than RATS and Ox; 3. Hansl is much more elegant than the EViews command line     language. Um abraço, -- Henrique Andrade _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel