On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Sven Schreiber wrote:
But there is some truth to what you're saying, especially
mentioning
programming languages. That's why gretl's language hansl has always kept
the decimal point as mandatory (despite some controversy there as well).
Hem hem.
IIRC, it took quite a bit of discussion, and at times an overly
confrontational attitude on my side, to take this result home.
I'm trying to keep as quiet as possible in this discussion. I believe that
everybody who's been around the gretl community for some time knows what
my opinion is and I'll just refrain from voicing it again, because I
appreciate the value of a compromise that took so much work (and
patience) to reach.
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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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