Switching between using menus, when you have no idea about the command, I just use the menu, then copy paste to a do file the speed by using the familiar commands The ability to take the output to external documents (pdf, word, html) doing that by either native stata commands or third party packages Setting stata environment is a piece of cake. # Programming with Stata can be done through different ways - writing ado files - using Mata programming language - viewing the source code of command is amazing, which can help develop the programming skills - Editing native stata do files by adding or removing chuncks - installing packages to solve common problems # Getting help: the documentation of stata is something really I cannot find the word to describe it. I can learn and do research from the Stata documentation, specifically, finding the references. finally, searching for something you don't really know what that exactly is, doing that only by using the search command, Stata will suggest many things

Ease of use, functions, easy navigations, and tabs, generates charts and tables easily along with the analysis

Stata is a flexible tool for several statistical analysis and have a friendly user interface. The results are pretty much the same with the results from other well known statistical programming languages.