Re: [Gretl-devel] Signalling
On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Talha Yalta wrote:
> that producing a "nice teaching GUI" and nothing more
is a dead end.
> Those who teach econometrics will in general want their students to
> use software that they can continue to use in their professional
> lives.
I have never advocated "producing a nice teaching GUI and nothing
more". But I do advocate a shiny, modern, consistent, and rock solid
GUI for applied research, as well as teaching.
Others may disagree, but I find it very unrealistic that in 2013 someone
could produce applied research (at the level you'd expect to find in a
reputable scientific journal) without relying on a solid, flexible and
comprehensive scripting language. If you prefer R over hansl, that's fine:
use R. But the fact is, that many in the economic/econometric profession
find R not fun to work with, and much prefer (say) Matlab or GAUSS. I
believe most of these people find themselves to be much more productive
with hansl than R.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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