Date:         Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:09:11 -0500
Reply-To:     Jonathan Goldberg <jgoldberg@BIOMEDSYS.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jonathan Goldberg <jgoldberg@BIOMEDSYS.COM>
Subject:      Re: 10 years of hash in SAS

On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:25:48 -0800, Kenneth <yanxiaoguang@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>On Dec 25, 2:09 pm, sash...@BELLSOUTH.NET (Paul Dorfman) wrote:
>> It has just dawned on me that on 1998-12-15, this raw hash concoction
was
>> posted to SAS-L:
>>
>> http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9812C&L=sas-l&P=R985
>>
>> Has it been 10 years already, really? Hard to believe...
>>
>> Merry Christmas, Everyone...
>>
>> Kind regards
>> ----------------
>> Paul M. Dorfman
>> Jacksonville, FL
>> ----------------
>
>Merry Christmas, Paul.

Hash has proven to be the gift that keeps on giving; I strongly(althought
possibly wrongly) believe that the reason we have a hash object today is
that Paul embarrassed SI into it.  Before that, a true table lookup had
been a staple of Sasware ballots for literally decades.

Ten years!  In the "normal" course of events I won't be around for
twenty.  Although with the way things have been going I might be
programming until I start drooling on the keyboard.

In any case, thanks, Paul, for hash and for all your other outstanding
contributions to innumerable other problems over the years.

And a happy and prosperous New Year to all.

Jonathan