Hacker News Reader

> SAS is basically a slightly improved excel.

SAS is a pretty big system, and I have worked with SAS for about 10 years, and I can't see any similarity with Excel at all. Which part of the SAS system do you think resembles Excel ? Here is a list of their products (http://support.sas.com/documentation/productaz/index.html)

Btw. I do think I am doing serious data analysis in a bank :-)

View on HN

The only similarity I can think of is that everything is a table :).

He might have only seen Enterprise Guide, which indeed resembles Excel. But that a good thing, actually.

That's my guess. Personally, for 99% of my uses for SAS, all I see is the script window, the log, and the output window. That's about as far from 'Excel' as you can get while still having an interface.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com