Re: [Gretl-users] Automating regressions on various variables
On Sun, 28 Dec 2014, Sven Schreiber wrote:
However, maybe you and Jack should have a private discussion about
this,
because the user manual is full of such examples involving string
substitution, and then there's the quote "It’s amazing what string
substitution can do for you, isn’t it?" (from section 16.3 in the manual).
I remember writing that sentence. String substitution is a great thing in
scripting languages. As a heavy bash user, I absolutely love it. The
problem is, it makes it very difficult to optimise a language for speed
and efficiency.
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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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