SAS - Programming language

SAS, aka Statistical Analysis System, is a programming language created in 1976 by Anthony James Barr.

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The SAS language is a computer programming language used for statistical analysis, created by Anthony James Barr at North Carolina State University. It can read in data from common spreadsheets and databases and output the results of statistical analyses in tables, graphs, and as RTF, HTML and PDF documents. The SAS language runs under compilers that can be used on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and various other UNIX and mainframe computers. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
There are at least 8,407 SAS repos on GitHub
Early development of SAS happened in North Carolina State University
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 1k users using SAS in 1k repos on GitHub
There are 7,963 members in the SAS subreddit
There are 54 Project Euler users using SAS
Explore SAS snippets on Rosetta Code
SAS on HOPL
SAS ranks #21 in the TIOBE Index
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for SAS
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for SAS
There is 1 Jupyter Kernel for SAS
Indeed.com has 1,160 matches for "sas programmer".
sas.com was registered in 1990
See also: (2 related languages) HTML, Linux
10 PLDB concepts link to SAS: Bazel, beef-lang, Eiffel, Flow9, GAP, HHVM, JSL, POV-Ray SDL, Racket, Tea

Example from hello-world:

%macro putit( string= );
     %put &string;
     %mend;

%putit(string=Hello World)

Example from the Hello World Collection:

/* Hello world in SAS */

* Writes as output title;
TITLE "Hello World!";
* writes to the log;
data _null_;
    PUT "Hello world!";
run;

Example from Linguist:

/* Example DATA step code for linguist */

libname source 'C:\path\to\file'

data work.working_copy;
	set source.original_file.sas7bdat;
run;

data work.working_copy;
	set work.working_copy;
	if Purge = 1 then delete;
run;

data work.working_copy;
	set work.working_copy;
	if ImportantVariable = . then MissingFlag = 1;
run;

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Case Insensitive Identifiers	✓
Line Comments	✓	* A comment	*
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* A comment */	/* */
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X