UltraEdit is not the tool of choice for developing Information Delivery Portal (IDP) Custom Portlets. One of my colleagues found this out after spending many hours with .par compile problems. Turns out that UltraEdit was inserting funky characters and hexidecimal code. Of course, SAS is smooth - but it isn't

Are there best practices for SAS programs? How can you make them efficient? Does it really matter if a program takes .3 seconds or .10 seconds to run? Some code that I have seen in the last two days points to the fact that efficiencies in SAS code (or Java