Ronald J. Fehd

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SAS-L's macro maven; Most Valuable SAS-L Contributor: 2001, 2003

Contents 1 Overview 2 Signatures 3 SAS community wiki pages 3.1 Book 3.2 List Processing 3.3 Macros 3.4 OpSys=Windows issues 4 SAS User Group Papers 5 Library

Overview

Ronald Fehd has a B.S. in Computer Science, and has attended SAS User Group conferences since 1989. Since 1997 he has presented over a dozen papers on macro usage, programming theory, and Hands On Workshops on list processing.

He is the macro maven on SAS-L, the international online SAS listserve; to which he has posted over 5,000 messages since 1997. In 2001 and 2003 he was voted Most Valuable SAS-L Contributor.

He is the author of several packages on the SAS Community wikipedia.

His 20 years of SAS experience includes 15 years as a data manager; he is currently tech support for SAS on the HelpDesk at Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.

Signatures

• CDC
  • Ronald J. Fehd, IT Spec
  • team lead: Statistical Software HelpDesk and Knowledge Worker Support
  • HelpDesk Level 3: SAS
  • CDC SAS site representative
• SAS-L
  • Ron Fehd the macro maven CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov
• sas community wiki:
  • the radical programmer

SAS community wiki pages

Search for: the radical programmer

• categories: 16
• pages: about 100
• five pages in top fifty pages viewed as of 2009-Jan-25

Book

Journeymens_Tools A SAS Companion

List Processing

• Call_Execute_Parameterized_Include
• List_Processing_Basics_Creating_and_Using_Lists_of_Macro_Variables
  • co-author: Art Carpenter
  • SGF 2007 Hands On Workstop
• List_Processing_Development
• Making_Lists
• SmryEachVar_A_Data_Review_Suite

see also:

Macros

• Macro Add_To_Item
• Macro_Array_Package
• SASautos_Companion_Reusing_Macros SUGI 30 Applications Development

see also:

OpSys=Windows issues

• Batch_processing_under_Windows not your mainframe MVS
• Java_JRE_1.5 how to (re-)install JRE 1.5 under Windows\SAS folder after your IT has removed it, for security reasons
• Saving_sas_logs
• Setting_Up_Project_Config_and_AutoExec
• SoftGrid Virtual installation of SAS
• Updating_SASv9.cfg_for_Sudaan RTI is publisher of Sudaan

SAS User Group Papers

See also: Search Lex Jansen's site, by author

• http://www.lexjansen.com/sugi/
• http://www.lexjansen.com/cgi-bin/saspapers_query.php
  • Returned 71 result(s) sorted by month DESC.
  • total of 31 papers

Library

• Alfred V. Aho, Jeffrey D. Ullman, John E. Hopcroft
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • http://www.amazon.com/Structures-Algorithms-Addison-Wesley-Computer-Information/dp/0201000237
• Malcolm Gladwell
  • Outliers: The Story of success
• Douglas Hofstadter
  • Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
  • info: definition and descriptions of module, routine, subroutine
• Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger
  • The Elements of Programming Style, 2nd edition
• Doug Lowe
  • MVS TSO, Part 1: Concepts and ISPF
  • MVS TSO, Part 2: Commands, CLIST, and REXX
  • OS/390 and z/OS JCL
  • OS Utilities
  • keywords: BigIron, Mainframe
• Marcel Mauss
  • The Gift
  • keywords: Open Source Software
• W. W. Petersen
  • File Design and Programming
  • my advisor at U/HI
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The Black Swan
  • info: comparison of Bell Curve (Gaussian) with Fractal, Power Law, or scalable distributions

Ronald-Fehd --macro maven == the radical programmer 16:09, 10 September 2008 (EDT)