Any SAS Programmers out there?

[Paula Sims]

Just wondering if there are any geeks out there like me. I'm Base and Advanced certified in v9.

Oh, and for those that want to Google SAS - it's a privately held corporation in NC that was Google-like before Google came along. It's my dream job but I would have to move to NC and it's too hot and no snow!

[kentauros]

1. Not a programmer at all.

But you might want to ask in the various computer groups we have here


Less active:
Website, DB, & Software Developers (Group)
Open Source and Free Software (Group)


More active:
Computer Help and Support (Group)

[hunter]

2. I have a friend who was using it for some heavy duty medical research, years ago.

These days it seems everyone uses Exel (ugh!), maybe Mathematica.

I've fancied trying Yorick if I ever run into a data set I can't easily digest with simple tools.

My first programming class was Fortran and we used punched cards.

[SwissTony]

3. Used to do some SAS programming years ago.

My preferred package is Stata, but I've also used SPSS, GLIM, Genstat, Minitab, BMDP, MatLab, plus some I've almost certainly forgotten about.

I've programmed in Fortran (with punched cards, Hunter - and the computer was the size of a bus), Pascal, Borland Delphi, all sorts of C, Modula II and III and now Java. And, again, a few I've probably forgotten about.

And you've probably guessed...I'm an old fart.

[pinboy3niner]

4. I feel lucky if I can program my thermostat

Just kidding. I'm good at that easy tech stuff but I am certainly not a programmer. And my thermostat is analog, with mercury.

[Enrique]

5. i have a theory about SAS programmers

they are highly likely to be from Taiwan. Is there any truth in this in your experience? One place I worked at, our SAS department consisted of four Taiwanese women, the only Asians in the company.

[Paula Sims]

6. Nope, Chicagoland born and bread

In fact, during the annual international SAS Global Forum (aka SAS Geek-a-Thon) most seemed to be non-Asian. Lots of Scandinavians, though.

[arcane1]

7. I took a 3-day class for work, did quite well, and enjoyed the hell out of it!

Sadly, my department stuck with Business Objects and ended up never getting SAS, though others are using it to access our data.

It's possible we will be revisiting it in the near future. I hope so!

I also hope you get a better answer than this one

[PersonNumber503602]

8. I'm a techie type, and can do a bit of programming and scripting when needed, but

that SAS stuff and similar have always been things that I've put on the very bottom of the "to learn" list. I used to work with someone who was always trying to convince me to take classes for it because he said there's a lot of money to be made. To which my thoughts were that there's a lot of money in selling my organs on the black market, and that sounds far less painful and traumatic.