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Faizanshaikh
Fluorite | Level 6
Hello,
Can any one tell me which language we use for sas programming.
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SASKiwi
PROC Star

SAS programming is done using the SAS language. This is a proprietary language that is unique to SAS software but does share some similarities with some other English-like programming languages. Also SAS includes an implementation of another language - SQL.

Reeza
Super User

If you're on Viya you can use SAS, SQL, R or Python.

 


@Faizanshaikh wrote:
Hello,
Can any one tell me which language we use for sas programming.

 

KaueMAlmeida
Obsidian | Level 7

@Reeza wrote:

If you're on Viya you can use SAS, SQL, R or Python.

 


@Faizanshaikh wrote:
Hello,
Can any one tell me which language we use for sas programming.

 


 

You forgot Lua Programming.

 

The following link has some information about Lua Programming and SAS. https://developer.sas.com/guides/lua.html

Sajid01
Meteorite | Level 14

Hello
For somebody new to SAS it would be good if SAS is used for programming,
If the user has a knowledge of SQL that can be also be used but as a subset of SAS Proc SQL.

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