I hated SAS with a passion when I was forced to work with it for 2 years. One of the biggest problems I faced was, it would take me a long time to find out if something was doable or almost impossible in that language.
It wanted to be more than just SQL, but the interoperability with other languages was awful, we couldnt even work with it like SQLite.
It wanted to be more than just SQL, but the interoperability with other languages was awful, we couldnt even work with it like SQLite.