One of my undergrad classes was for SAS, and they mixed MIS, CS, math, and statistics people in this class. It took weeks for those on the CS track to get that

One of my undergrad classes was for SAS, and they mixed MIS, CS, math, and statistics people in this class. It took weeks for those on the CS track to get that when your code says "proc average", you're _calling_ a procedure, not defining a function. We had no idea where the code was supposed to go. There was a serious disconnect between the students and the professor in that class, who, I later realized would have just needed to say "this calls the procedure average" and things would have been fine. We had no idea, initially, how we were getting results. Of course, we had to run all this on VMS and print it out on a fan-fold line printer, and it wasn't very interactive. SAS products seem to be more visual and interactive now.