SPSS - Programming language

SPSS is a programming language created in 1968 by Norman H. Nie and C. Hadlai Hull and Dale H. Bent.

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SPSS Statistics is a software package used for logical batched and non-batched statistical analysis. Long produced by SPSS Inc., it was acquired by IBM in 2009. The current versions (2015) are officially named IBM SPSS Statistics. Read more on Wikipedia...

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Early development of SPSS happened in SPSS Inc
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2 PLDB concepts link to SPSS: JSL, Tea

Example from hello-world:

BEGIN PROGRAM.
print "Hello World"
END PROGRAM.

Example from the Hello World Collection:

* SPSS Syntax
* "Hello World" title in the Output Window of SPSS via SPSS Syntax.

TITLE 'Hello World'.

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Case Insensitive Identifiers	✓
Print() Debugging	✓		print
Comments	✓	* A comment where first character must be *.
Semantic Indentation	X
Line Comments	X