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[未知用户] I can't agree with you.
Your view is from the old school and out-dated.
In the world of modern statistics, computing skill is playing more important role than ever.
Take a look at websites of J. Friedman @ stanford and B. Ripley @ oxford. They all are world-class statisticians and also have top-notch computing skills.

in my view, a general-purpose scripting language, such as python or perl, can be used to do data processing or reporting instead of SAS.
R alone can not replace SAS. However, a combination of several open-source languages is able to take care of 80-90% of major functionality in SAS.
Just my $0.02.