5 engineers on Hacker News describe using SAS first-hand: 0 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“made a similar vow to Never Again™ touch R (or SAS). ... My distaste for Statistics stems directly from the commonly used tools.”
regret · production · taoffhand · 2021-05-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In contrast, the previous SAS program could do 231 policies a minute on xeon 64 core processor from 2017.”
regret · production · meztez · 2019-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had a statistics professor (teaching a programming class using, IIRC, SAS) in college”
neutral · personal · wahern · 2026-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We are phasing out SAS and proprietary modeling tools.”
neutral · production · meztez · 2020-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I went to work as a Credit Risk Analyst using SAS.”
neutral · production · laughfactory · 2014-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?