$ whois stata

Stata

first released in 1985 · by William Gould, Sean Becketti

$ guessprog --inspect stata

year: 1985
paradigm: procedural
family: other
memory: automatic gc
binding: dynamic
safety: weak

STATA(7)

AUTHORS: William Gould, Sean Becketti
HISTORY: William Gould and Sean Becketti released Stata in 1985 through the Computing Resource Center in California, as a statistics package for the then new IBM PC. Analyses are written as commands in "do-files", with "ado-files" letting users add their own commands, and macros provide text substitution. A separate, compiled matrix language called Mata was added in 2005.
USAGE: Widely used in economics, epidemiology, political science and public health research, and a standard tool in many economics PhD programmes. Like SAS and R, it is mostly written by researchers rather than software engineers.
SEE ALSO: Stata on Wikipedia ↗

$ cat analysis.do

* load an example dataset shipped with Stata
sysuse auto, clear

summarize price mpg
generate price_k = price / 1000
regress price_k mpg weight if foreign == 0

* macros are expanded as text
local cars = _N
display "Cars in the dataset: `cars'"