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Old 11-01-2014, 10:33 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by Hoofless_Wonder

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.
SAS is not a programming language and its approach to to computing belongs in 80s. The 'scripting' languages you are referring to, represent both the present and the future when it comes to software development and by no means they can be seen as competitors to arcane approaches like SAS
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