Date:         Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:30:45 -0700
Reply-To:     Jack Hamilton <jfh@STANFORDALUMNI.ORG>
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From:         Jack Hamilton <jfh@STANFORDALUMNI.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Is batch SAS a dead end? (was Re: SCL versus Macro)
Comments: To: Chang Chung <chang_y_chung@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Chang Chung wrote:


> I've got a birdie's opinion on this matter:
>
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> the advantages of stored processes are that they are catloged
> in metadata
> so other people can find and use them (contrast this with
> macros that are
> often "hidden by obscurity", not well shared across the enterprise (or
> organisation if one is not an enterprise)
>
> and that the output can be incorporated in many places that SAS output
> never showed up before.  excel.  web services.  etc...
>
> i wish more people could see that a stored process is
>
> a) a new name for an old thing
> b) a good way to leverage that old thing by making a lot more broadly
> consumable
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If the birdie thinks that macros are more obscure than the metadata server,
I can only guess that the birdie has never tried to set up a metadata server
on a large multiuser system using only the documentation supplied by SAS.