Laurel A Copeland, among many other comments, wrote
> I find SAS much better for data management. There are many ways to
> approach each coding task; code can be optimized for
> readability/teachability, or for brevity, or for
> conservation of space or CPU time.
and Richard Herrell similarly wrote
> I continue to find Stata frustrating for data
> management and prefer SAS's data step
> capabilities.
I think Stata's developers (and at least one user-programmer)
would like to see specific suggestions of what
is easier to do in SAS, to help influence
the agenda.
Sometimes -- but not always -- it turns out
that the facilities exist; it is just not
transparent how to use them.
Nick
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