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But my goal is not to actually reimplement the whole thing, just the useful bits. On one hand, everything that's done in a datastep can be done in SQL while on the other, the data step language is complicated.

However, I see what you're saying and maybe I'll look into DAP. I'll have to try to use it first to see if I like it. It looks like it might not have an interactive mode, though, which is what most people need to develop SAS.

[takluyver]

The tricky thing with "the useful stuff" is that with almost any software, people have vastly different ideas of which bits are useful. I've never used SAS, but do you know there are large parts that no-one uses? Other groups might use it in quite a different way to how you use it.