Chris Hemedinger
Senior Software Manager, SAS R&D
SAS

Bio

Chris Hemedinger has carved an impressive career out of making SAS more accessible and easier to understand. Starting his career at SAS in 1993 as a technical writer, Chris created the hit 'SAS Companion' series for OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. He went on to additional projects aimed at making SAS even easier to use for non-programmers, giving rise to the hugely popular SAS^® Enterprise Guide, a product he has worked with ever since.

Now a senior software manager in SAS R&D, Chris is part of the team that builds SAS^® Enterprise Guide and SAS^® Add-In for Microsoft Office. He's also co-author of the popular SAS for Dummies book and moderator of the SAS Enterprise Guide discussion forum.

Presentation Title

SAS Programmer's Paradise: New Goodies in SAS^® Enterprise Guide 4.3

Presentation Abstract

Are you looking for a SAS development environment that actually helps you write and manage SAS programs? It's here! This paper describes the many new productivity enhancements for programmers in SAS^® Enterprise Guide 4.3 including:
. A new program editor with syntax completion for hundreds of SAS procedures and statements
. Support for parentheses matching
. Disambiguation, program "tidy" functions
. SAS code analyser that now reads your program and turns it into a process flow, or modifies it to optimize the program steps to run in parallel on a grid computing environment.
. SAS^® Enterprise Guide project file which supports relative paths, making it easier to manage your projects, programs, and data in standard source management systems.
. Stored process so that you can share your expertise with the world.