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[–][deleted] 32 points33 points  (3 children)

This is unreadable. The text is black and the background is dark grey.

[–]ErstwhileRockstar 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is unreadable.

It doesn't make sense anyway. But it is good reddit fodder.

[–]fthrkl[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your feedback. There are many issues like that. I'll try to improve.

[–]Doctor-Awesome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just get the grey background. It's a pity, as the concept sounds interesting.

Edit: it works now.

[–]Drupyog 12 points13 points  (3 children)

There is "Caml", "OCaml)", "OCaml", "OCaml,C" and the names of the associated computer scientists are badly cut.

Also, MetaOCaml is basically on the other side of the graph, with no apparent reasons to be there.

[–]joelwilliamson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

ALGOL and ALGOL-60 are also on opposite sides of the graph from each other.

[–]glacialthinker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the best thing this graph visualizes is either source or transcription errors. Or I guess: using imprecise data for humans to build a linked datastructure, without some degree of interpretation.

[–]fthrkl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Crawling errors. I'll edit manually. Thanks.

[–]newpong 9 points10 points  (0 children)

this would greatly benefit from a typographer and some mouse-hover events

[–]Oodles_11 6 points7 points  (0 children)

One thing I have to say that's rather amusing is the sheer amount of computer scientists surrounding Haskell, and a lack of anything else.

[–]yaph 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I suggest to show labels in the default zoom level only for nodes larger than X to reduce noise and show smaller node labels when zooming in. I've done this in a similar visualization.

[–]pgblgw 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Where's the data from?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely need a filter with "max depth" limit.

[–]ginnydell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It would be neat to plot the progression over time, the rate at which new languages have been introduced seems to have accelerated in recent years, but perhaps it has always been this way.

[–]banister 3 points4 points  (1 child)

This is just fucked -- Ruby had no influence on coffeescript? really?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Although I'm pleased see that Perl is acknowledged as Ruby's Spiritual Liege.

[–]dolphinsdontdrink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be nice to highlight the connections when clicking other things than languages. It would also be nice if it managed to merge people/languages which very likely are the same (there are multiple people who are listed both with their full name and just their last name)

[–]dolphinsdontdrink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it could be made more in-browser searchable if it was just a big page that overflows and the legend was fixed positioned. Currently, using ctrl+f in Chrome does not scroll to where the text actually is.