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...gy, beyond the one given in the "new" documentation? 3. Are there efficiency issues that one should be cautious about? 4. Is there any way to enforce the Foucaultian imperative that any new "sex" object has to pass through the initialize phase? Oh, for those simple days of yesteryore when the pecadillos of the president caused no harm, and the Dow was over 10,000... Apologies in advance if this moment of sexistential doubt offends anyone. url: www.econ.uiuc.edu Roger Koenker Dept. of Economics UCL, email rkoenker@uiuc.edu Department of Economics Drayton House, vox: 217-33...

I realized earlier this year (2007) that it was in 1987 that I first started using an early version of S (it was ported to VMS and was called success). That means that I have been using some variant of S (to various degrees) for over 20 years now (I don't feel that old). Since things are a bit slow this time of year I thought I would take a few minutes and reminisce on some of the changes