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- From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
- Subject: Re: SAS compared to Perl
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- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 07:01:10 GMT
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- In article <hhg1-110992064042@132.197.14.85> hhg1@gte.com (Hal German) writes:
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- >This is the text version of a paper presented at the Boston Area SAS User's
- >Group recently. It will also be in the proceedings of the Northeast SAS
- >Users Group. Enjoy !
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- I now do some things using perl on the PC that I would previously have
- done in SAS. Both are useful. Perl is faster and has better string
- manipulation capabilities; on the other hand, SAS has a lot of statistical,
- graphical, and data entry tools that perl doesn't. Different tools for
- different jobs.
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- SAS's major usage base is still on IBM mainframes, I believe. Has anyone
- ported perl to VM/CMS or MVS? I'd think that CMS would be a more
- sympathetic environment.
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