Richard,

I don't know if that would be such a good idea to allow SAS to turn into an extensible system that allows the user their syntax of choice. It may be desirable to the user who is writing the program, but how about the person to whom falls the responsibility of maintaining the program after the original author has moved on? In that case, you will need someone who knows the SAS language well enough to know what can be done with it, and who knows the syntax of the dialect that the author used. Could get to be quite a mess.

Dale

Richard DeVenezia wrote:

> >I would love to see Data step turned into an extensible system that would >allow us to plug-in our own dialects (imagine using perl/lisp/rebol/etc... >syntax within a data steps implicit loop.) These kinds of changes will only >occur in the user base demands it. When SAS does not sastify the customer, >the customer finds satisfaction elsewhere. > >SAS has alot of assimilating to do to incorporate many of the benefits of >Java / Java ideas, and Java has a long way to go to meet the many >capabilties of SAS. > >-- >Richard DeVenezia - SAS Macros and AF Tools >http://www.devenezia.com > ><bill_kossack@my-deja.com> wrote in message >news:95mirr$v6a$1@nnrp1.deja.com... >> I've seen a trend of a number of companies thinking that they can >> replace the use of SAS with JAVA. >> >> What do people think of that? >> >> >> Sent via Deja.com >> http://www.deja.com/

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