pldb

// Greetings human! // // PLDB is a site // created before Ai, // by a team of humans // all over the world // who came together // because of their // shared interests in the questions // "what is programming" // "what are programming languages" // "how any are there" // "who created them" // "what makes them similar and different" // and // "how can i make my own"? // // PLDB is written in Scroll. // // The "database" is just text files. // // PLDB is public domain. // // Downlaod a copy - // it works great locally!

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A Programming Language Database

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View this readme as HTML

https://pldb.io/readme.html

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PLDB is a public domain ScrollSet and website containing over 135,000 facts about over 5,000 programming languages.

This repo contains the entire ScrollSet, code, and website for https://pldb.io.

To download the data

The entire ScrollSet is ready to analyze in popular formats. Full documentation is here: https://pldb.io/csv.html

• As CSV: https://pldb.io/pldb.csv
• As TSV: https://pldb.io/pldb.tsv
• As JSON: https://pldb.io/pldb.json

To build the site locally

code git clone https://github.com/breck7/pldb cd pldb

Required to run this during first install only.

npm i -g cloc

Required to run this on fresh checkout and when upgrading from an old checkout or periodically when there are new releases

npm install .

(Optional) Run tests

npm run test npm run build

After you make changes and before you commit make sure to run:

npm run format

To explore this repo

The most important folder is concepts, which contains the ScrollSet (a file for each concept). The file code/measures.parsers contains the Parsers (schema) for the ScrollSet. You can see the cloc language stats on this repo at https://pldb.io/pages/about.html.

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All sources for PLDB can be found here: https://pldb.io/pages/acknowledgements.html

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