Re: [Gretl-devel] some bugs and issues
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012, Talha Yalta wrote:
I find this final solution to be rather disappointing (although it
is
better than a bug). I also consider it discouraging for translators
putting considerable effort localizing gretl. But maybe that is also
unnecessary. Maybe everyone should learn English to do econometrics
:-P
Beyond a certain point it is indeed necessary to learn English to do
econometrics, since that's the language in which the great majority
of original papers on the subject are published. But you can get a
good understanding of econometrics at the undergraduate level
without knowing English, and I think the gretl translators have done
a great job in making that easier.
Regardless of one's native language, however, one thing it's
necessary to learn, to be a competent econometrician, is
"programming" in a broad sense (including scripting, not just
low-level computer languages, which not everyone has to learn). And
in relation to programming, the newbie econometrician has to learn
that the decimal comma is simply not acceptable -- for technical
reasons, not chauvinistic ones -- even if it's the preferred form
for printed material in one's native country.
Allin