Date:         Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:44:03 -0700
Reply-To:     Jack Hamilton <jfh@STANFORDALUMNI.ORG>
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From:         Jack Hamilton <jfh@STANFORDALUMNI.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Jeopardy/Millionaire questions
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Paul Dorfman wrote:

>  Richard,
>
> The Jeopardy format, most definitely. BTW, this style was tried at SAS Bowl in Seattle and methought it worked much better than the Q->A format that had been always used before. Unfortunately, the Bowl went defunct for reasons having nothing to do with the format. Now, a small contribution:
>
> A. This SAS procedure does not exist, yet often becomes a SAS interview subject.
> Q. What is Proc Merge?

We (SAS-L) should find someone with a SAS/Toolkit license and *write* a
PROC MERGE.  What should it do?

It might be possible to write a PROC MACRO using implicit macros, but
I'm not sure how we would capture the final "run;" without doing
something dreadful.  Maybe I just need to think about it longer.