Rad, thanks for the info and thorough response!  I dont wanna sound unappreciative, but I saw that most of the stats and ML tasks don't have the CASL option.  There a reason for that, and there a chance that will be added?  Those are what I usually use.  ... View more

All the Viya tasks produce CASL code, or just some of them?  Great way to learn the syntax! ... View more

@Rick_SAS,   Thanks for the info and thorough response!  Yeah I know that my question was vague and a little difficult to answer (my bad), partly because I dunno exactly what is out there and cuz Im open to different feedback people may have. Optimally, I wanted an apples-to-apples runtime comparison for common matrix operations, knowing that may be a pipe dream.    So thank you for your feedback, your attempt to answering my question, and your references. I’ve seen your blog and I was wishing that you would chime in because, many a posts you’ve written, I have found useful.   Your comment about calling R from IML is money. It rings a bell but I totally forgot about it and never tried it but that is rad. Truthfully, that alone should be sufficient to convince my colleagues to roll with SAS since thats the best of both worlds. Great that it’s now SAS and R and not SAS or R! More open source integration, the better, IMHO. ... View more