On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 02:40, McKown, John wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Waite, Dick > > Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 2:49 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: SAS for Linux on S/390 > > > > > > Grand Day > > > > If your looking for a compiler and assembler that runs on z/VM, > > z/OS, zLinux, LinTel and WinTel and is 99% compatible with > > SAS then try > > the link below. I have been using Dignus for many years now and before > > that SAS/C, I'm happy with Dignus, give it a try maybe you will be > > too... > > Ah, Dick. Dignus does not produce a SAS language replacement. It does > have a very fine replacement for IBM's and SAS's C compiler and IBM's > HLASM. But that is not the product under discussion. SAS Institute was > founded upon the SAS language. This is a very powerful data language > (which I think is so tightly copyrighted/patented/???? that even trying > to make a similar language will result in a lawsuit) with associated > "procedures". IIRC, SAS originally targetted this for statistics and > stood for Statistical Analysis System (but that was long, long ago, in a > galaxy far, far way)
Actually, they'd probably lose any such case. The basic information is so widely spread on very many mainframe-using Universities' websites that I suspect any judge would consider that their stake in it had been diluted so badly that such claims were risible. And ask them to sort it out quietly amongst themselves instead of wasting his time. I think the reason they may _not_ have been cloned, was that people got and made other statistical tools and languages for computers - the GNU R language springs to mind; a written-from-specs clone plus improvements of the S statistical language. (Heck, I think there were even statistics programs written for CP/M and MP/M!) And so you're likely to find most of your statistics tools and languages already in Debian, say, or SLES, already there. Wesley Parish > > -- > John McKown > Senior Systems Programmer > UICI Insurance Center > Information Technology > > This message (including any attachments) contains confidential > information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its' > content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you > should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, > copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action > based on it, is strictly prohibited. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
