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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:28:53 CDT
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- From: "J. Philip Miller" <phil@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Syntax-Sensitive Editing for SAS Programming (fwd)
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- Jack N Shoemaker <shoe@WORLD.STD.COM> writes:
- >
- > Why use DM? Use EMACS to edit your SAS programs and batch 'em up. If you
- have
- > an editor that you like, then DM buys you practically nil.
-
- [flame on]
-
- if your application is one which is suitable for a traditional batch
- processing approach I agree with Jack. What we have learned in the last
- two decades is that for many tasks there are distinct advantages to
- interactive processing. This requires different thought processes,
- however, and changes in the tools that you want to use. For example, if I
- am cleaning a dataset, if I am in a batch mode I may run a proc print and
- then use my favorite editor to browse the output [I have learned that I
- save many trees by doing this instead of printing it out :-]. If I am in
- an interactive mode, however, I find that I do a series of FSEDITs, or SQLs
- or PRINTs with a WHEN statement. In each case doing this series of steps
- within DM is substantially more efficient than firing up my editor,
- creating a file, submitting the file to SAS, etc.
-
- [flame off]
-
- -phil
-
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- J. Philip Miller, Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Box 8067
- Washington University Medical School, St. Louis MO 63110
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