_plugin_ is the term.
see
http://www.stata.com/plugins/
in my limited experience (I've written only a handful for personal
use) preferred language for plugins is C/C++ and if you want to use
fortran code you have to write a C wrapper. easier than it sounds
though.
hth
tom
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Would it be possible to you to provide me the technical term (the problem
> here is the English) of the process by which Stata calls another program,
> which, in turn, does all calculations and sends results back to Stata?
>
> I just have written a program that I think it will be very useful to other
> Stata users. Nonetheless, since the current Stata programming does not
> support very well "heavy", exact tests, for some calculations Stata calls
> a fortran program do to the task. Is this an elegant way to do something
> in Stata that cannot be done in terms of standard Stata programming? The
> program in a .exe file renamed to .ado. The source code is available for
> Unix users. Hence, I would like to know your previous experience with this
> kind of stuff as well as if there is a problem in making that program ( a
> .exe masked as .ado) available?
>
> All the best,
>
> Tiago
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