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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Compare and contrast Perl v Python Post 302842941 by sas on Sunday 11th of August 2013 10:17:21 AM

08-11-2013

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Originally Posted by figaro

If you are using SAS already you are probably better off continuing to use that. There almost nothing SAS cannot do, whatever data you throw at it. It sounds like you have big data and even if you do want to step away from SAS, you would probably want to lean towards Python, because it appeals to the high performance community and are more likely to get help there.

I agree! I've been using SAS Windows for years, now after learning how to run it on unix, I've a whole new world of "bag'a tricks" that I can throw at these data! How on earth have I been living all these years not leveraging unix with SAS?! Python's some great cleansing abilities! Geeezzzzz, I'm enlightened folks. This is a groundbreaking way to see data on a unix box.....I know this is nothin new to you all Smilie

Ken Thomson, Denis Ritchie, et al....hats off to you all and this community!

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