topic Re: What is SCL program in New SAS User

What is SCL program

Phoenix_LJ — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 10:46:15 GMT

I saw "SCL program" when I learning SAS help. I want to know what "SCL program" is ?

Re: What is SCL program

Patrick — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 10:54:28 GMT

SAS Screen Control Language.

It's one of the SAS languages but was never really widely used and must be seen as "obsolete" by now. As a SAS learner nothing you have to care about. Better concentrate on SAS9.4 and Viya/CAS.

Re: What is SCL program

Shmuel — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 13:14:28 GMT

SAS SCL was widely used to write interactive, objected oriented, programs.

Many of SCL code is enabled now to be used within sas base and it is now considered as part of it.

Re: What is SCL program

SASKiwi — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:37:05 GMT

SAS renamed this language to SAS Component Language quite a while ago to reflect that it is now used commonly in Base SAS, including in SAS 9.4 and SAS Viya.

I, and many others, continue to use SCL statements and functions like EXIST, FEXIST, OPEN, CLOSE etc as they are very useful in Base SAS processing within DATA steps and SAS macro processing..

Re: What is SCL program

Patrick — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:30:06 GMT

@SASKiwi Valid point but.... do you still consider these commands as SCL or just as functions migrated to Base SAS Language?

Re: What is SCL program

SASKiwi — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:42:01 GMT

@Patrick - The current documentation now includes the SCL functions that work in Base SAS without differentiating their heritage. Six of one or half-dozen of the other?!