Great work Chas! I can't wait to try it out (and pay for it).
On Apr 19, 9:19 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
