Today I heard at school that in my course of statistics I would be using a program called statistica.Of course this is a expensive piece of closed source software that doesn’t really have any general use but for this class. As it only runs on windows

I would love to be at least able to view statistica files on linux so I decided to go out and try to write a .sta viewer, as I’d found some kind of statistica development kit.

Turns out this kit is from 1997 (the version that works with c++, all the rest only works with  vb.net) and it’s simply not usable under linux. damn that’s a disappointment so it seems that I’m going to have to stop on my little project unless someone has some kind of miracle solution to this darn problem.