Oh wow, this looks exciting! Subbed. Ambrose
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Chas Emerick <cemer...@snowtide.com>wrote: > Today, I’m opening up a “preview” site for Clojure Atlas [1], a new side > project of mine that I’m particularly excited about. > > Clojure Atlas is an experiment in visualizing a programming language and > its standard library. I’ve long been frustrated with the limitations of > text in programming, and this is my attempt to do something about it. From > the site: > > While Clojure Atlas has a number of *raisons d’être*, it fundamentally > exists because I’ve consistently thought that typical programming language > and API references – being, in general, walls of text and alphabetized links > – are really poor at conveying the most important information: not the > minutiae of function signatures and class hierarchies, but the stuff that’s > “between the lines”, the context and interrelationships between such things > that too often are only discovered and internalized by bumping into them in > the course of programming. This is especially true if we’re learning a > language and its libraries (really, a never-ending process given the march > of progress), and what’s standing in our way is not, for example, being able > to easily access the documentation or signature for a particular known > function, but *discovering* the mere existence of a previously-unknown > function that is perfect for our needs at a given moment. > > This is just a preview – all sizzle and no steak, as it were. I’m working > away at the ontology that drives the visualization and user experience, but > I want to get some more early (quiet) feedback from a few folks to make sure > I’m not committing egregious sins in various ways before throwing open the > doors to the world. > > In the meantime, if you’re really interested, follow @ClojureAtlas [2], > and/or sign up for email updates [3] on the site. > - Chas > > [1] http://clojureatlas.com > [2] http://twitter.com/ClojureAtlas > [3] http://clojureatlas.com/subscribe > > > P.S. This is a ML repost of my announcement @ > http://cemerick.com/2011/04/19/clojure-atlas-preview/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
