Writing A Comparison Essay

Finance::YahooChart is a Perl module to get a chart from Yahoo! Finance. SYNOPSIS use Finance::YahooChart; %img = getchart(symbol => $symbol, size => $size, type => $type, include => $include); print width=$img{width} height=$img{height}>"; This module gets charts from Yahoo! Finance....

XML Hammer application is a free and open-source tool that simplifies elementary XML actions like checking for well-formedness, validation, transformation and xpath searches using any JAXP implementation. After all these years of XML, it is still relatively difficult to simply validate or...

Benchmark is a Perl module with benchmark running times of Perl code. SYNOPSIS use Benchmark qw(:all) ; timethis ($count, "code"); # Use Perl code in strings... timethese($count, { Name1 => ...code1..., Name2 => ...code2..., }); # ... or use subroutine references. timethese($count,...


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pyraknet is a Python extension that has bindings for the reliable UDP network library RakNet. pyraknet allows you to concentrate on your game or application rather then writing a your own networking code. pyraknet is straightforward to implement and you only need a small amount of TCP/IP...


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Polymorphic XML Parser is a validating XML parser for the programming language Objective Caml. In October, 1999, I started writing a validating XML parser for OCaml; the first published versions have been called "Markup" (simply because the package name was "markup"). After this parser had some...


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Algorithm::SISort is a Perl module that contains select and insert sorting algorithm. SYNOPSIS use Algorithm::SISort qw(Sort Sort_inplace); @sorted_list = Sort {$_[0] <=> $_[1]} @unsorted_list; # ... or ... $number_of_comparisons = Sort_inplace {$_[0] <=> $_[1]} @unsorted_list; This...


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File::Wildcard is a Perl module for enhanced glob processing. SYNOPSIS use File::Wildcard; my $foo = File::Wildcard->new(path => "/home/me///core"); while (my $file = $foo->next) { unlink $file; } When looking at how various operating systems do filename wildcard expansion (globbing),...


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gscan2pdf project is a GUI to ease the process of producing PDFs from scanned documents. You scan one or several pages in with File/Scan, and create a PDF of selected pages with File/Save PDF. At maturity, the GUI will have similar features to that of the Windows Imaging program, but with the...


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Supybot is a clearly-written Python IRC framework and bot, intended to be both easily extensible and very flexible. Several modules are included by default. Numerous plugins are already written, including Google, Factoids, RSS, Quotes, and Relay. Plugins and their commands achieve greater...


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Posy::Docs::ProgrammerGuide is a guide for programmers of Posy. How Posy Works Posy has two modules which drive the whole thing: Posy and Posy::Core. Posy has been set up so that, when you give it a list of plugin modules to use, it imports them as children of each other, so that each one...


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infobot is an IRC bot written in Perl 5 which implements a sort of artificial intelligence by learning information ("factoids") from channel discussions and then responding intelligently to queries about this accumulated information. In the beginning, we had to type URLs out, or, at best, wade...


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Language::Zcode::Runtime::State is a Perl module to handle saving, restoring, etc. the game state. restoring Getter/setter: currently in the process of restoring or not? start_machine Start executing the Z-machine. In the normal case (starting a new game, or restarting), this is as...


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Druide DB project is a simple XML file database API in Java to manage an XML database file system without database complexity (no server or client, and stores only strings). You should try DruideDB if you are doing the following : - If you are writing a simple application (swing, awt, RCP,...


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XArchive is a generic front end for archives that uses external wrappers around the command line tools. XArchive checks its wrapper directory when it starts, consulting each wrapper found to see what file types are supported. Thus, a new archive format can easily be supported by just writing a...


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GNU Gengen (GENerator GENerator) is a tool that, starting from a parameterized text, called template, generates a text generator that can substitute parameters with values. At the moment Gengen can generate C++ or C code; however other target languages are under development (e.g., Java). This...


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plconfig is a tool for configuring HomePlug powerline bridges. HomePlug specification based powerline bridges are becoming increasingly popular. Ive got myself two of them; the brand name is "ZEUS"; a strange brand that only seems to exist in Switzerland, and some people say its actually ZyXEL...


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Apache::CryptHash is a Perl module with encrypted tokens for cookies. Creates an encrypted cookie-like string with a MAC (checksum) from a hash of critical and non-critical values. The MAC is created on only the critical values. Decryption will fail if the string has been altered and the MAC...


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XML::Twig is a Perl module used to process efficiently XML documents. Twig offers a tree-oriented interface to a document while still allowing the processing of documents of any size. I think the current buzzword for it would be "push-pull" processing. When I was younger I wanted to grow up...


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Log::Log4perl::FAQ is a Perl module that contains Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on Log::Log4perl. This FAQ shows a wide variety of commonly encountered logging tasks and how to solve them in the most elegant way with Log::Log4perl. Most of the time, this will be just a matter of smartly...


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File::Remote is a Perl module to read/write/edit remote files transparently. SYNOPSIS # # Two ways to use File::Remote # # First, the function-based style. Here, we can use the # special :replace tag to overload Perl builtins! # use File::Remote qw(:replace); # special :replace tag #...


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