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/

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