Date:         Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:15:26 -0800
Reply-To:     Francogrex <franco@GREX.ORG>
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From:         Francogrex <franco@GREX.ORG>
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Subject:      In which language was SAS first written?
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I know that SAS itself is a programming language for statistics and
data management, but I mean the software itself is probably not
written in SAS (as an example I give that R/Splus is a programming
language for stats but the basis of Splus is a a simple Lisp (scheme)
interpreter). Does anyone know? was it C or C++?
And as a consequence, could SAS be considered a general programming
language (like for example C or C++ in which software applications are
written?)