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		<title>A Strange SQR Bug</title>
		<link>http://peoplesoftsqr.com/index.php/2010/01/a-strange-sqr-bug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the ten years that I have been programming in SQR, I&#8217;ve found a few cases where the compiler is a bit more limited than the documentation implied.  However, I can only think of one example in which SQRW acted in a way that was unambiguously wrong.

SQR Reserved Variables
Every SQR program may use a collection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evaluate Two Values At Once In SQR</title>
		<link>http://peoplesoftsqr.com/index.php/2010/01/evaluate-two-values-at-once-in-sqr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I wrote about the similarity and superiority of the SQR evaluate command compared to the C or Java switch command in SQR Evaluate Versus C/Java Switch, part 1 and part 2. Here is another way to extend evaluate functionality.

Evaluate Two Values
Evaluate takes one value and compares it to one or more other values.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SQR Masks</title>
		<link>http://peoplesoftsqr.com/index.php/2009/10/sqr-masks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems appropriate to talk about masks with Halloween coming.  More powerful than trick-or-treat facewear, SQR masks can format numbers, analyze dates, and precisely extract characters from strings.  Boo!

Masks Appear In Many Guises
SQR helpfully integrates the mask function in many commands.  Alter-Locale allows us to configure the behavior of date and number default masks.  Concat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SQR Functions</title>
		<link>http://peoplesoftsqr.com/index.php/2009/10/sqr-functions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Algorithms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SQR language has several families of built-in functions.  They range from minor conveniences to potential life savers.  There are some surprising inclusions and surprising omissions.  I discuss some of the functions I wish we had in An SQR Wish List.

Math Functions
The round and trunc (truncate) functions give us control over fractions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elements of SQR Style</title>
		<link>http://peoplesoftsqr.com/index.php/2009/09/elements-of-sqr-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elements of Style is the famous book by William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White.  First written in 1918, it is a guide to writing well in American English.  Anything good about the prose on this blog should be credited to Strunk &#38; White.  The flaws must be ascribed to me.  This week&#8217;s blog entry is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 SQR Resolutions</title>
		<link>http://peoplesoftsqr.com/index.php/2009/08/4-sqr-resolutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not New Year&#8217;s Eve, but I have some resolutions to use more of the rich features of SQR to write programs that are richly featured themselves.

More Color
My internal customers are so used to monochrome, monofont reports that they&#8217;ve never thought to ask me for color.  Most of my reports output to PDF files in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hooray For Arrays.Part(1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve mentioned arrays while writing about other topics.  It&#8217;s time I write about arrays.  Someone could program in SQR for a whole career without ever using them, but that someone would have to work harder to do without these handy data objects.
Arrays Versus Spreadsheets And Tables
SQR arrays resemble spreadsheets or database tables, but also have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An SQR Wish List</title>
		<link>http://peoplesoftsqr.com/index.php/2009/05/an-sqr-wish-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 02:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peoplesoftsqr.com/?p=335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As much as I like SQR, I am reluctantly willing to admit that it is not perfect. Ray Ontko, one of the pioneers of SQR, listed his ideas for improvements on his company&#8217;s website. Here&#8217;s my wish list. Given the maturity of SQR, I don&#8217;t expect any of the changes to occur, but I&#8217;ve had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SQR Dates</title>
		<link>http://peoplesoftsqr.com/index.php/2009/04/sqr-dates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Algorithms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Numbers are probably the most important scalar objects of business applications, but dates may be a close second.
Dates Are Harder Than Numbers
Numbers are simple; they line up.  Commands manipulate them without units.  Dates are more complicated because we group them on calendars.  We give them names.  We invent cycles and use the same names over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Uniquely SQR Bugs</title>
		<link>http://peoplesoftsqr.com/index.php/2009/04/7-uniquely-sqr-bugs/</link>
		<comments>http://peoplesoftsqr.com/index.php/2009/04/7-uniquely-sqr-bugs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peoplesoftsqr.com/?p=285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even the best programmer in my one-person cubicle makes mistakes. I&#8217;ve worked in several different languages, and made the same mistakes in many of them; out of bounds array index, dividing by zero, messing with Texas.
Yet, when I switched from C programming to SQR programming, suddenly I stopped writing null-pointer bugs … and started to [...]]]></description>
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