September 23, 2019
The 7th edition of Professional SAS Programmer’s Pocket Reference is scheduled for release on November 5, 2019.
It has been 25 years since the first edition of Professional SAS Programmer’s Pocket Reference, which was published by McGraw-Hill in 1994.
The book was a rapid success then and has been updated repeatedly to keep up with technological advances that expand the ways that programmers work with SAS.
The new 7th edition covers more ways SAS programmers can work with Internet data and standards. It also covers SAS Viya, the promising new cloud processing platform from SAS.
Author Rick Aster estimates that SAS’s capabilities have grown by a factor of 10 in the last 25 years. “In the first edition I tried to include everything a SAS programmer might possibly use,” Aster says. “Now, that would be impossible.”
There are limits on how much a compact reference book can grow. SAS in 2019 might have more than 1 million pages of documentation, but the 7th edition of Professional SAS Programmer’s Pocket Reference is only 15 percent longer than the first edition was in 1994.
SAS, published by SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, is analytics software often used in data discovery applications.
Rick Aster is an economist and a software developer specializing in digital marketing analytics. His first book on SAS was Professional SAS Programming Secrets in 1991.
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