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Re:Show HN: Visualizing 'Silhouettes' of Programming Languages by d--b on Saturday July 01, 2017 @05:35AM (#14676265)
What's most striking is that there is not a lot of differences between the languages. C and Python are somewhat denser and php tends to be more spread out. But that's about it.

I guess that reflects that humans break code in a way that looks the way they're used to.

Purely functional languages probably diverge significantly from these shapes.

Re:Show HN: Visualizing 'Silhouettes' of Programming Languages by azeirah on Saturday July 01, 2017 @08:56AM (#14676908)
It's a _very_ selective dataset, this doesn't show much. The idea's cool though