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+SL(E)BOK
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+SL(E)BOK 2.0 is an emerging community-based collaborative-oriented project that aims at creating and maintaining a Body of Knowledge(BOK) about Software Languages, Software Linguistics and Software Language Engineering (SL(E)).
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+SL(E)BOK has offically launched as a [http://planet-sl.org/slebok](workshop) colocated with the conference of Software Language Engineering — [http://planet-sl.org/sle2012](SLE 2012) in Dresden.
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+Currently this repository contains the web frontend for the [https://github.com/grammarware/sleg](Software Language Engineering Glossary) (SLEG).
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