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Re: Merging PSPP and GRETL?
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: Merging PSPP and GRETL? |
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Mon, 28 May 2007 08:59:41 -0700 |
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Andreas Karlsson <address@hidden> writes:
> Wouldn’t it be a good idea to merge PSPP and GRETL?
I don't think so. They have different goals. PSPP is a clone of
SPSS; GRETL is a new language entirely. I doubt the SPSS
workflow would easily admit merging with another language.
> It would probably not be too hard, considering that both are
> GNU GPL and programmed in C.
That statement is absurd. A common license and a common language
do not make programs easy to merge.
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Ben Pfaff
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