@Davnmu wrote:
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.
Do not try to use the macro language to generate code until you have enough experience at actually writing the code to know what code you want the macro language to generate.
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