Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 13:41:07 -0400
Reply-To: Joe Whitehurst <joewhitehurst@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Joe Whitehurst <joewhitehurst@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Response to serious questions
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Mike,
One more thing. I have sought to be be as transparent as possible about my
motives. So, let me say once again what I am trying to accomplish. I am
trying to help SAS professionals know more about what I think they already
know. The programming constructs, statements, functions, operators,
delimiters etc that they know so well from the datastep are perfectly
capable of replacing the Macro Language in the context of the SAS Component
Language programming environment. As they need is a slight adjustment in
their theory of "how SAS works" and mastery of a handful of functions that
only exists in SAS Component Language some of which are available through
%sysfunct.. The return for this minor investment is freedom from all the
Macro Language headaches so well documented in the SAS-L archives.
Joe
On 5/27/06, Mike Rhoads <RHOADSM1@westat.com> wrote:
>
> Joe Whitehurst included the following question as part of his response
> to Ian's recent posting:
>
> "I think the defenders and apologists [for macro] are not helpful in
> this regard. The more they muddy the waters the more suspicious I am of
> their ulterior motives. Could it be that some of them would like to
> profit from maintaining an interest in an antiquated language?"
>
> With apologies to the late Senator Lloyd Bentsen: I know most if not
> all of the "defenders and apologists". I have worked with some of them,
> and consider many of them my friends. I have no doubts about their
> motivations.
>
> Perhaps you should carefully examine any possible "ulterior motives" on
> your part before impugning the motivations and integrity of others.
>
> Mike Rhoads
> Westat
> RhoadsM1@Westat.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Joe Whitehurst
> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 2:12 AM
> To: iw1junk@comcast.net
> Cc: SAS-L@listserv.uga.edu
> Subject: Re: Response to serious questions
>
>
> Ian,
>
> Let me see if I can straighten you out a bit and help you get your head
> screwed on properly before you get set in your erroneous, mistaken ways
> to
> the detriment of those on SAS-L who don't know any better. ...
>
> [remainder deleted]
>
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