Re: [Gretl-devel] some bugs and issues

I understand most of the discussions for using dot as the decimal separator but I cannot understand why it is not posible to allow people enter one-line commands at the GUI (with a simple translation layer) without avoiding some sort of a millenium bug where all scripts will suddenly stop working and the hell will break loose. (Maybe we should have this discussion after 2012 passes?) At any rate, as a small protest, I decided not to translate the string "Please note: the decimal character must be '.'\n in this context" Instead, maybe I can help with updating the manual :-) Gretl proudly adheres to the Anglo-American tradition of using dots as the decimal separator. To support this view, it first seemed like a good idea to point out that the majority of World's population uses dots. Quickly realizing that the Chinese can one day switch to commas, we decided to go with the fact that programming languages such as Fortran, C, C++ and Java... also use dots. Of course, there are two or three billion people who know nothing about these languages but can still use computers and somehow do arithmetics even, however, that surely is an exception. Our firm stand on this topic should teach those comma-huggers how to write error free scripts if they aspire to computer literacy. Finally, we realize that today computer literacy also requires knowing Microsoft products, so in the future we will do our best to do things the Microsoft way as well. The Gretl Team (From eco//////////////////////////////// (You are either with us or against us) -- “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” - Niels Bohr (1885-1962) --