SPSS

I am a long time user of SPSS. For many years, it was all I knew, and I managed to write fairly complex macros in SPSS 16. Then I needed to make a lot of very similar graphs, looping over groups, and it just didn't do the job. That's when I switched to Stata and never looked back.

Because of collaboration and to convert very large datasets to SAS and Stata, I may use it every now and then. We have SPSS 20 and it is a little improved, having syntax highlighting and a more stable feel. The looks on the other hand are just childish and the language remains cumbersome.

The SPSS code manual is not very well organized. For help, you'd want to go to the UCLA website or to the SPSS forum. I do not post there anymore though.