Back in 1973, if you needed complex numbers and didn't want to implement them yourself, Fortran was pretty much the only game in town. These days any language with a decent Object system has a Complex Number implementation.


On another subject, given all the great Statistical tools/languages out there, why SPSS? Most recent version changes have broken working code in a dramatic and undocumented ways for no known benefit. Licensing has always been a nightmare and has gotten worse over the last 3 years. It's as bad as most business software was in the mid 80s.

Unfortunately, most of the SPSS users I've met are unwilling to learn another tool.

If you have someone who is not yet hooked on SPSS, don't do them the disservice of pointing them that way.

In reply to Re^2: Perl as one's first programming language by Anonymous Monk
in thread Perl as one's first programming language by amarquis

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