Do SAS coding "best practices" exist?
At work, we develop a lot of our applications in SAS, from start to
finish. One of the problems with this approach is that SAS is a very
verbose language with very few language constructs; there is limited
support for variables, very limited support for basic functions, and no
such thing as classes. They have a concept called "macros" which
essentially text substitution; you define a macro, and on invocation, it
simply drops in the content of the macro.
My question is, is anyone familiar with "best coding practices" for use in
developing SAS applications? Are there software design patterns for SAS?
I've gone through Code Complete, and some of what he writes is applicable
to SAS, but much of it is not, as the concepts don't exist in SAS. Can
anyone recommend resources for writing maintainable, well-designed SAS
code?