Show HN: Visualizing 'Silhouettes' of Programming Languages

Re:Show HN: Visualizing 'Silhouettes' of Programming Languages by timpark on Friday June 30, 2017 @03:09PM (#14673003)

Neat. I saw something like this recently in game form: Codeshapes http://teropa.info/codeshapes/

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Re:Show HN: Visualizing 'Silhouettes' of Programming Languages by runeks on Friday June 30, 2017 @05:24PM (#14673685)

I'm getting the shape of a lot of license headers, from which I'm supposed to guess the language.

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Re:Show HN: Visualizing 'Silhouettes' of Programming Languages by waisbrot on Friday June 30, 2017 @03:45PM (#14673210)

This is better than the story link, I think. I found it impossible at first, but after a few rounds there were some clear clues like the block of imports at the top of a Java file or the distinctive shape of functions in functional languages.

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Re:Show HN: Visualizing 'Silhouettes' of Programming Languages by rosstex on Friday June 30, 2017 @07:20PM (#14674154)

Wow, I'm way better at this than I imagined.

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