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Re:Show HN: Visualizing 'Silhouettes' of Programming Languages by otto_ortega on Friday June 30, 2017 @08:23PM (#14674470)
Interesting project, but these silhouettes reflect the programmer's coding style not anything specific to the languages themselves.
Re:Show HN: Visualizing 'Silhouettes' of Programming Languages by justinian on Friday June 30, 2017 @10:33PM (#14675023)
The interesting thing here would be seeing some form of aggregation of various projects to see what effects the language does have on style. Would love to see something that shows the effect of e.g. Python's whitespace or Go's boilerplate.