Stata - Programming language

Stata is an open source programming language created in 1985 by William Gould.

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Stata is a general-purpose statistical software package created in 1985 by StataCorp. Most of its users work in research, especially in the fields of economics, sociology, political science, biomedicine and epidemiology. Stata's capabilities include data management, statistical analysis, graphics, simulations, regression, and custom programming. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
There are at least 8,344 Stata repos on GitHub
Early development of Stata happened in StataCorp
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 867 users using Stata in 1k repos on GitHub
There are 16 Project Euler users using Stata
Explore Stata snippets on Rosetta Code
Stata appears in the TIOBE Index
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Stata
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Stata
PLDB has 2 Jupyter Kernels for Stata: github.com, github.com
There is a central package repository for Stata
stata.com was registered in 1994
See also: (4 related languages) C, Linux, ASCII, Microsoft Excel
Read more about Stata on the web: 1.
3 PLDB concepts link to Stata: cloc, JAL compiler, JSL

Example from the Hello World Collection:

/* Hello world in Stata */

 .program hello
  1. display "Hello, World!"
  2. end
.hello

Example from Linguist:

local MAXDIM   800

Example from Wikipedia:

program define fizzbuzz
	args x
	forvalues i = 1(1)`x' {
		if mod(`i',15) == 0 {
			display "fizzbuzz"
		}
		else if mod(`i',5) == 0 {
			display "buzz"
		}
		else if mod(`i',3) == 0 {
			display "fizz"
		}
		else {
		display `i'
		}
	}
end

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* A comment */	/* */
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X