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Re: windows installers
From: |
Ben Pfaff |
Subject: |
Re: windows installers |
Date: |
Sat, 22 May 2021 11:59:34 -0700 |
On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 12:44 PM John Darrington
<john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 11:00:44AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> Yes, I agree. Classic SPSS isn't general purpose enough to write
> statistical procedures
> that are as easy to use as the ones built into it. The SPSS language
> manages to
> be a misery of inconsistencies that make it near impossible to
> generalize.
> The macro language (which I'm currently implementing), which appears to
> be
> meant for extensions, is terrible.
>
> Maybe we will eventually be able to implement the Python extensions to
> SPSS.
> Those are the most fruitful direction I've seen toward making SPSS
> programmable
> in a reasonably friendly way.
>
> Some years ago I wrote an experimental scheme interface which seemed to work
> quite well.
> Perhaps I'll dig it up again some time. The biggest complication as I
> remember was
> dealing with missing values. They always complicate matters in unexpected
> ways.
Scheme (Guile) is unlikely to be as useful as Python to our users,
since I imagine
that some of them already have Python programs for SPSS.
- Re: windows installers, (continued)
- Re: windows installers, Ben Pfaff, 2021/05/10
- Re: windows installers, Ben Pfaff, 2021/05/16
- Re: windows installers, John Darrington, 2021/05/16
- Re: windows installers, Michel Boaventura, 2021/05/16
- Re: windows installers, John Darrington, 2021/05/16
- Re: windows installers, Ben Pfaff, 2021/05/16
- Re: windows installers, John Darrington, 2021/05/16
- Re: windows installers, Michel Boaventura, 2021/05/17
- Re: windows installers, John Darrington, 2021/05/18
- Re: windows installers, Ben Pfaff, 2021/05/26
- Re: windows installers,
Ben Pfaff <=