I can relate to this, I come from a C/C++, Java, PL/SQL and VB script background and only started SAS programming 2 months back, I can be very honest, I find SAS programming really drab! The language is counterintuitive, I keep searching online for really simple commands such as outputing macros in logs etc and when I try it out, nothing appears, numerous times I get syntax errors for simple if-then-else statements. Why not have just one standard syntax for if-then-else?? The introduction of do inside it complicates everything for nothing, and then reading from files and formats and comparing string formats is only the beginning of trouble. Really I am beginning to hate this language, I wish something could be done to improve the syntax without overtly complicating things.
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