MRDCL has been one of the few premier scripting languages for market research tabulations for many years. I have noticed that these products have not changed focus in 20 years, yet market research has changed out of recognition. Well, the big news is that MRDCL has changed.

For many years, I could not help wondering why the Quantum tabulation software for market research was still in use. Most of us consider IT and software to be fast-moving industries, yet SPSS bought Quantime, the developers of Quantum, in 1997…