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I use to make a living 20 years ago writing dll's for FORTRAN to call native OS and custom functions. 2 weeks ago a SAS AnalYst wanted to do some very odd things that SAS can't do and the only way to do it was calling dll's to interface to Windows and Office. Brushing up on SAS, and I swear FORTRAN was easier. Hopefully this will be a niche to exploit for a few months/years, I use to be pretty good at this.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.
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![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) 
I never finish anyth
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I spent 4 years programming in SAS but have only done a small amount of functional programming.
With SAS in essence there is Base SAS, which is very limited, as well as a whole bunch of libraries that are required to do anything useful in SAS.
The problem comes with the libraries which appear to follow no particular pattern in their use when it comes to their functions.
So one function that performs an analysis on your dataset will have completely different parameters and calling systems to another function that again runs similar analysis on your dataset.
The conclusion I came to was that SAS was a system that was built by people with very little experience in programming - meaning that the language really gets in your way.
As an example - if you sort a dataset via sql, in SAS, then take that dataset and extract the first 10 items from the dataset you will find that the dataset is no longer sorted and those 10 items could be from anywhere in the datset.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
I dismiss that! 
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You now have me in an infinitely recursive loop having to think that one through!
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Wait... Does this mean you are the OTHER FORTRAN programmer on this website?
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Hi!
I am trying to create new items on the right click menu on a ChartSpace (OWC11). This is for copy image to clipboard and possible other tasks.
Any that can help?
BR/Per
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Please read the message at the top of this forum that says "No programming question in the lounge".
And post your question in the appropriate forum, or in the Quick answers section[^].
Be prepared to face the question: What have you tried? You should read the guidelines of how to ask a question, if this is your first time in this forum.
I never finish anyth
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Try posting this in the programming questions forum.
My long term goal is to live forever. So far, so good...
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Just answer "eh" to every question. 
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"Are you deaf?"
"Eh".
"I SAID, ARE YOU DEAF?"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Reminds me a scene in a late 70's TV show called Taxi. one person was helping another study for a driving test;
Questioner: "what does a yellow light mean?"
Answer: "slow down"
Questioner: "what......does.......a ...... yellow .......light .......mean?"
Answer: "I said slow down"
Questioner: "what..................does....................a .................. yellow ....................light ...................mean?"
This went on for a while, it was hysterical.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Not safe for work nor kid sister friendly so I won't post it here - but look up the Peanuts Lauder cartoon for a similar joke.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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ROTFL! That is probably the funniest Peanuts I've ever seen.
Coming to think of it, that's the only funny Peanuts I've seen.
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I remember that scene...the questioner was Jim. Cool old show!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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You're right it was Jim, one of the best characters on any show.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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No wonder it went like this... Yellow light is always "speed up!" 
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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jeron1 wrote: Questioner:
Answer: Jim Ignatowski
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I didn't think too many folks would know that name.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Ahhh... Jim... don't have to watch it, I can picture it...
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Eh!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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"I can read lips." 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Eh.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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