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.
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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