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Re: Re: SAS vs Perl?by BazB (Priest) |
on Aug 14, 2003 at 21:31 UTC ( [id://284020]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
scrottie++. gunglichen, you don't explain what your application is and how you currently use SAS, so it's hard for me to make specific comments, but I'm going to drivel on anyway :-) As well as Perl, I use SAS at work - it's used as the basis of our (multi-terabyte) datawarehouse, which I personally think is pretty horrific, and for marketing/customer research analysis on substantial amounts of data where it really shines.
I'm not really a fan of SAS - I generally don't use it as a statistical package, but as a datawarehouse/datastorage system.
The basic SAS does not handle parallel processing, concurrency, transactions and the like that you'd expect from an RDBMS. If you want to calculate regressions, aggregations, perform summarisations, and more analytical functions that I understand, SAS is one of those bits of kit that'll do the job.
Perl is neither an RDBMS nor a complicated statistics package. SAS does have text processing capabilities, but I almost always extract the data, munge it using Perl, or stick in through some other bespoke software.
If you're using SAS to perform transforms, data storage, basic reporting, comparisons etc, maybe Perl plus some kind of database (from CSV to RDBMS depending on requirements) would do the job. There is no way you could hope to replicate all of the statistical and reporting functionality or even a respectable subset that SAS offers using Perl.
Cheers. If the information in this post is inaccurate, or just plain wrong, don't just downvote - please post explaining what's wrong.
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