Building a periodic table of programming languages; suggestions/feedback?

3 points by benshyong 13y ago ↗ HN

Hello everybody, I want to learn some front-end development/design (Angular.js, D3.js), so I am resurrecting an old project that I did to learn Rails almost three years ago.

Anything that you would want to see besides the list of all the languages (currently colored by type of language: OO, procedural, functional, etc.)? I want to plan this out a little bit before I start building, so I wanted to reach out and see anybody has suggestions on how to make this project more useful/informative as a showcase of the diversity of languages out there! Suggestions so far: Link to wikipedia pages for languages, code samples.

Here is the project as it stands so far: http://codingtable.heroku.com

Thanks, can't wait to see how this turns out!

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angersock 13y ago ↗

Your reset button doesn't bring back the stuff I clicked on. :(

The real Periodic Chart has some rough guidelines for why elements end up where they do--weight, and so on, and things in the same columns have similar behavior in some ways (charge generally, as I recall). You might want to consider doing something similar for this--have all the prototype languages next each other, the lispy ones next to each other, etc.

Cool project though!

informatimago 13y ago ↗

the perfect gaz column is filled with Lambda calculus, LISP, LeLisp, MacLisp, ZetaLisp, Scheme (with all its isotopes from rs, to r7rs) and of course the most stable of them: Common Lisp.

quietthrow 13y ago ↗

My two cents. The idea is good but I am not sure if you are presenting it in the most user friendly way. When one selects a category or year its hard to easily get a clear picture of whats 'on' or falls in the selection selection and whats 'off' (whats not part of the selection criteria).