Chapter 1: Introduction
Fear of the unknown may be the most common fear on the planet. Fear of proc template is probably the second, at least for SAS users. We think both of these fears stem from the same source: the unknown. Once you understand what proc template is and what it is not, it isn’t nearly as frightening. The biggest problem with understanding proc template is realizing that it isn’t a procedure like proc means or proc tabulate that has one set of statements and options to describe its behavior. proc template is really a “wrapper” procedure that contains a common set of tools for template-based languages to use. These tools ...
