Inefficiency of SAS Programming

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Frank E Harrell Jr

Ajay ohri wrote:

Sometimes for the sake of simplicity, SAS coding is created like that. One
can use the concatenate function and drag and drop in an simple excel sheet
for creating elaborate SAS code like the one mentioned and without any time
at all.

A system that requires Excel for its success is not a complete system.

To be fair R depends on perl (although this dependence seems to be decreasing
lately and possibly will be eliminated), latex and a bunch of unix
tools.  Developing
GUIs depends on tcl/tk or other external system and developing fast code
can require that some of it be written in C.