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Originally Posted by DeltaLover
....In my opinion, it is way better to go through these material instead of just starting from Excel or Access that curiously appear to be so popular here in PA
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No mystery. Excel and Access are self-contained programming applications and GUIs to boot. I would be more critical of M$ products if the smartest guy I ever worked with didn't use Excel for almost all his programming and analysis needs - and he was the lead ground system engineer for a NASA satellite program.
What I don't understand, as a self-admitted "challenged" programmer, is why there hasn't been more popular tools like SAS for programming. It seems that every time I turn around there's a new "hot" scripting or programming tool, which always seems to require some serious effort to learn, implement and maintain. I worked with SAS back in the mid 1980s, and it still seems leaps and bounds ahead of what some of the "modern" tools have.
And now the latest thing I have to deal with is integration of established software apps with MicroSoft's Power Shell, which is nothing more than adding some nice unix commands to DOS. Check.
