> aim to please the 80% as the 20% are never satisfied.
Nick, aiming at the messenger again hey? Not good for you karma.
🙂
Others and I have made quite clear what would make us happy, just because you disagree doesn't mean they are wrong.
>Not and IDE????
Not by a mile.
IDEs have long had core features like:
- Explorer, Ding, though you have to learn yoga to do things as simple as checking paths or copying attributes or seeing catalogs. Any chance of seeing formats (see paper from Randy Herbison for DMS yoga procedure)?
- Source Editor, Ding, in a small pane, and with some upcoming improved features.
- Debugger, Brrrp. Not even the old text-based DMS one that doesn't do macro lines.
- Data Viewer, Brrrp, unless you only want to see the first few rows and columns.
No subsetting, no column choice (or freeze?), no form view, that even good old viewtable object does.
- Source Code Management, Brrrp, not even code history.
- Performance Optimiser, Brrrp. Something called SCL Performance Analyzer came out over 15 years ago, then nothing.
- Run Analysis/Summary, Brrrp. One has to decipher all the log results with one's little hands.
>why do they appear to be devoting most of their resources toward EG
Indeed.
>The editor up to EG 4.2 is the Enhanced Editor in the Windows SAS DMS
No it isn't. See the OP(even if a few points have been fixed), and some of the subsequent comments.
>The key question should be: Is SAS supporting EG and dropping DMS? The answer is No!
That's not the way it looks. At all.
Will sas V10 have a DMS? Would anyone from sas promise it will?
Regardless, the DMS as it is could die tomorrow and if it is replaced by a proper development environment (which EG isn't, see above), then I won't miss it one bit.
This thread was not to be about EG vs DMS, it was meant to be about a replacement to the DMS aimed at developers, with the appropriate IDE features, which EG is not.