Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:39:47 -0500 From: "Bhat, Gajanan" Subject: Boston Area SAS User Group - Meeting Announcement --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Boston Area SAS Users Group Message List March 16, 2001 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: - Quarterly Meeting Announcement, April 5, 2001 - Our Web Site - BASUG Contacts --------------------------------------------------------------------- Meeting Announcement --------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT: Quarterly BASUG Meeting WHEN: Thursday, April 5, 2001, 1.00 P.M. to 4.30 P.M WHERE: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Landmark Center 401 park Drive Boston, MA 02215 RSVP: REQUIRED! by e-mail ONLY to: gajanan.bhat@parexel.com NOTES: You MUST RSVP for this meeting!!! to accommodate everyone. Please be aware of the following: This meeting will be at a Beginner to Advanced level of SAS. Upon you arrival, please check-in with the receptionist at the 4th floor East, BEFORE proceeding to the fourth floor training room, for the meeting. DIRECTIONS: See below. AGENDA: 1:00-2:00 "Writing the "Best" Program: The How and When of Efficient Programming" by Frank DiIorio 2.00-4.30 10 Corder's Corner Presentations (SAS Programming Tips and Techniques) RSVP: REQUIRED! by e-mail ONLY to: gajanan.Bhat@parexel.com CONTACT: If you have questions about the meeting or detail directions, contact: Thiru Satchi 617-246-3432 Gajanan Bhat 781-434-4617 --------------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACTS AND BIOS: --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00-2:00 PM "Writing the "Best" Program: The How and When of Efficient Programming" by Frank DiIorio It's relatively easy to write programs that optimize the use of CPU and other machine resources. There is a large and continually growing body of literature on the subject. What isn't as straight forward is knowing **when** to employ the techniques - blind implementation of tuning techniques is often not required by the task at hand and can sometimes even be counterproductive. This paper addresses both the "how to" and "when to" aspects of writing efficient programs. It describes design and coding techniques that conserve hardware resource usage. It also identifies other, non-machine implications of their usage that could dissuade the programmer from their use. For example, using temporary array elements is more efficient than using named elements but has the documented-but-obscure behavior of retaining values across observations. Maintenance of such code by other than "seasoned" and up to date programmers can be unexpectedly problematic. The concept of efficiency used in the paper includes all aspects of the program life cycle. We apply the "how and when" question to system design issues, system startup, DATA steps, procedures, and macros. Emphasis is on Base SAS software. The reader should finish the paper comfortable with the idea that the "best" program is not always the one that minimizes hardware resources. Frank DiIorio is author of "SAS Applications Programming: A Gentle Introduction" and (with Ken Hardy) "Quick Start to Data Analysis with SAS,"Both titles are part of SAS Institute's Books by Users series and have sold nearly 30,000 copies. Frank has been active in the SouthEast SAS Users Group (SESUG) since its inception, co-chairing the 1994 and 1996 conferences. He has, much to his astonishment after doing the math, nearly a quarter century experience with SAS software. His new book, "The Elements of SAS Programming Style," (working title) will be published in 2001. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2:00-4.30 PM 10 Coders Corner Presentations: topicss and the speaker names will be announced later. --------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS: Please Check in with the receptionist at the fourth floor before proceeding to the fourth floor training room. By Car: > From North of Boston: Take Route 93 South to the Central Artery. Then take Exit 26B, Storrow Drive West. Follow "Storrow Drive " direction below. (Storrow Drive West via Boylston street) Follow storrow Drive West for approximately 2.0 miles. Take the exit for Kenmore Square/Fenway. (This exit is a left turn.) Keep to the left for Fenway. Once on the overpass bridge, keep to the right. Bear right going onto Boylston street (outbound). Follow Boylston St. for .8 mile (5th set of traffic lights) the intersection of Boylston St., Park Drive, and Brookline Ave. Landmark center is on your right. Take a right onto Brookline Ave. Then take the first left onto Fullerton St. The Landmark Center parking garage is located on the left. > From South of Boston: Take 93 North to exit 16 Southhamton St./Andrew Square. At exit 16, keep to the left. At the traffic light at the top of the ramp take a left onto Southhampton St. Go .6 mile and turn on to melena cass Blvd. Follow "Melina Cass Blvd." directions below. (From Melena Cass Blvd.) Travel along Melnea Cass Blvd. (1.5 miles) to Tremont St. Take a left on Tremont Street. At the 2nd traffic light, Ruggles St., take a right. Stay on Ruggles St. Go across Huntington Ave. (landmarks are Wentworth Institute and Northeastern University) to Louis Prang St. At the next set of traffic lights (two sets close together), bear left onto the Fenway, and keep to the right . At the split bear right and then bear left onto Park Drive. once on Park Drive keep to the right. at the next set of the lights you will see the Landmark Center. At this traffic light bear to the right and take the second right onto Brookline Ave. (a hard right is Boylston St.) . Take first left onto Fullerton St. Landmark Center parking garage is on the left. Parking: There are ample parking spaces in the Landmark Center and surrounding for $6.00 to $8.50 a day. Public Transportation: > From Orange Line Take the orange Line to Ruggle Station. Transfer to Bus Route 8 (destination : Kenmore), 47 (Destination: Central Sq. , Cambridge), or CT2 (Destination : Kendall/MIT). Take Bus Route 8, 47, or CT2 to Landmark Center. > From Green Line: Transfer to Green Line west bound. Take the D car (Cleveland Circle) to Fenway station Remember: Please Check in with the receptionist at the fourth floor East before proceeding to the forth floor training room. --------------------------------------------------------------------- BASUG Contacts Mail: BASUG PO Box 253 Boston, MA 02117 Check out our Web Site: http://www.basug.org To email our Webmaster: webmaster@basug.org Subscribe to our email list: Subscribers receive automatic e-mail notification of upcoming meetings, courses, and conferences of interest to local SAS users. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to this message list, send a message to: Mailto:subscribe@basug.org Subject: subscribe To unsubscribe from this message list, send a message to: Mailto:basugwm@basug.org Subject: unsubscribe ---------------------------------------------------------------------