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Bandicoot: New Set-Based Programming Language

Bandicoot is a new set-based programming language. According to the project site: "The language is similar to general purpose programming languages where you write functions/methods and access data through variables. Though, in Bandicoot, you always manipulate data in sets using a small set-based algebra (the relational algebra)."

Other set-based programming languages include SETL and  Claire.

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Bandicoot is open source under the Apache License. Here's an example book manager written in Bandicoot, from the project site:

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rel Books {    title: string,    pages: int,    price: real,} shelf: Books; fn List(): Books{    return shelf;} fn Append(b: Books){    shelf += b;}

Bandicoot was build by Ostap Cherkashin and Julius Chrobak with the goal to "promote the relational model (more than any other SQL-like databases do)." They encourage everyone to read  Edgar Codd, who's work on the relational model that inspired relational database systems and SQL

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Video: Perl Programming Best Practices | linux.conf.au 2011!

As with many programming languages, it's very easy to find Perl code that can best be described as "write only". Cute tricks, short variable names, inconsistent spacing, dubious reliance on default arguments... Even without the added challenge of a whole extra embedded language (regular expressions), some Perl programs deserve to be referred to as line-noise. Yet Perl is a beautiful, expressive language that can be used successfully by novices through to experts to achieve powerful results; and, with a little extra preparation can be easy to read, fun to work with, and a joy to maintain. This talk will provide a lightning tour of the current status of Perl's best practices.

Talk by: Jacinta Richardson at linux.conf.au 2011

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Manage all your code snippets smartly with Snippet Manager™ (37 languages supported)

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Snippet Manager™ - developed by Richard Gardner is an extremely lightweight (no setup required) freeware utility that you can use for managing your code snippets in a variety of languages. Snippet Manager works with VB, C++, C#, Java, SQL, ASP, PHP, HTML, even COBOL, Assembler and Fortran (37 languages are supported). You can also use Snippet Manager to manage plain old ASCII text data.

Snippet Manager features a powerful search tool that is geared towards developers. You can use regular expressions or simple search criteria to find the exact code you need, when you need it, based on the language, category, dependencies, keywords or the actual code that you are looking for.

Another useful feature is the ability to publish your snippets on the Internet and optionally password protect your code. All you need is an FTP server to host snippets for your company or for anonymous users over the Internet (your choice).

Best of all, Snippet Manager is secure. The software does not "phone home" for any reason. You are virtually guaranteed that the software will never quit working or that your source code will ever be distributed without your permission.

Screenshots: www.snippetmanager.net/screenshots/

License: www.snippetmanager.net/license/

Download: www.snippetmanager.net/snippetmanager.zip

Blog/Support: http://blog.snippetmanager.net

It's really easy to use. Simply download the ZIP file and unzip the files into the directory of your choice.

To launch the application, double click SnippetManager.exe (Microsoft .NET 3.5 framework is required).

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WireIt - An Open-Source Javascript Wiring Library

WireIt is an open-source javascript library to create web wirable interfaces for dataflow applications, visual programming languages, graphical modeling, or graph editors.

Deeper hacking into WireIt might require some knowledge in the libraries used:

WireIt is released under the MIT License.

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