I want to thank some people for all their SAS wisdom!
● Thanks to Robert Woodruff, whose questions inspired me to write this book—if Robert has a question about something, then someone else probably has the same question.
● Thanks also to Scott Schwartz for all his questions and his side projects.
● Thanks to my team at MetLife for introducing me to SAS: Sue Rosansky, John Grasing, Wing Louie, Fred Duca, John Brobst, Chris Fallotico, Tom Grimason, Chris Szuter, Bruce Geddes, and Richard Ondrovic.
● Thanks to my mentor at SAS, Brian Perkinson, for teaching me so much and, more importantly, for being a great friend.
● Thanks to my fellow SAS programmers for all the tricks that I have “borrowed” from them over the years: Sally Walczak, Kevin Hobbs, Randy Poindexter, Jim Ward, Dave Berger, Kathy Wisniewski, Jason Sharpe, Merry Rabb, Greg Smith, Carrie Santiago, Jim Hart, Chuck Bass, Chris Watson, Chris Lysholm, Stephanie Watkins, Carl Sommer, and Tim Rowles. I have been so lucky to have worked with so many outstanding SAS programmers.
● Thanks to my teachers (many years ago) at RPCS who taught me that I could be a computer nerd and relatively articulate at the same time.
● And many thanks and love to my husband, Chris Messineo, for encouraging me to take on this project and then putting up with all the time I spent on it. And thanks to our two “kids,” Buddy and Lily, who didn’t get as many walks as they deserved because I was busy writing.