{"id":3279,"date":"2013-09-14T19:18:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T02:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2015-12-22T14:26:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T22:26:24","slug":"reblog-programming-languages-by-heatmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/reblog-programming-languages-by-heatmap\/","title":{"rendered":"Reblog: Programming languages by heatmap"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article originally appeard on Mahdi Yusuf’s<\/a> blog. It was originally titled Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7th September, 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

I switch between programming languages quite a bit; I often wondered what happens when having to deal with the different syntaxes, does the syntax allow you to be more expressive or faster at coding in one language or another. I dont really know about that; but what I do know what keys are pressed when writing with different programming languages.<\/p>\n

This might be something interesting for people who are deciding to select a programming language might look into, here is a post<\/a> on the answer to the aged question of: Which programming language should I learn?
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\nAs far as I can tell languages with a wider focused spread across the keyboard are usually syntaxes we usually associate with ugly languages<\/a> (ugly to read and code). ex. shell and perl.<\/em><\/p>\n

You might argue that the variables names being used will alter the results, but as most languages programming have conventions for naming but we can assume a decent spread for variable names. I don\u2019t offer conclusions, just poorly layout the facts. Although the heat map does miss out on things like shift and caps. ex. in perl with the dollar sign. ($)<\/em><\/p>\n

Whitespace<\/a> hasn\u2019t been taken into consideration (tabs and spaces) which would have been a cool thing to see.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The data that was used to gather this information was spread amongst various popular Github projects.<\/p>\n

Javascript<\/h2>\n

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Shell<\/h2>\n

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Java<\/h2>\n

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C<\/h2>\n

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C++<\/h2>\n

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Ruby<\/h2>\n

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Python<\/h2>\n

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PHP<\/h2>\n

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Perl<\/h2>\n

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ObjC<\/h2>\n

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Lisp<\/h2>\n

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Lisp code here<\/a> was written by Paul Graham.<\/p>\n

References<\/h3>\n
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  1. heatmap.js\u00a0http:\/\/www.patrick-wied.at\/projects\/heatmap-keyboard\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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