Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
peck@us.ibm.com
new phone: 720-342-5621

From: John F Hall <johnfhall@orange.fr>
To: SPSSX-L@listserv.uga.edu
Date: 03/13/2012 02:02 PM
Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] New tutorials on MULT RESPONSE (in syntax)
Sent by: "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@listserv.uga.edu>

Precisely I'm aiming at students and researchers who only have Gradpack or who have never heard of SPSS, but have survey data to process (a growing population now that academic institutions are looking for cheaper alternatives) for many of whom English is a second language. My tutorials should work with every release from 11 onwards and my syntax is much easier to understand and follow than anything created by the GUI.

>>>I have nothing against syntax - I designed a lot of it (as well as a lot of the SPSS gui), but I'm genuinely baffled. I taught a lot of students in days of yore, and I cannot believe that this syntax solution is easier to understand than the gui. Not to mention that the gui is translated while syntax is not. And current students would be on versions long past 11, so compatibility that far back doesn't seem to be of much benefit.

>>>Jon Peck
John Hall [snip] Email: johnfhall@orange.fr Website:www.surveyresearch.weebly.comSkype: surveyresearcher1