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Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies
During 1990, in response to the common problem of a filled hard disk, I became obsessed with the idea of producing a compact visualization of directory tree structures. Since the 80 Megabyte hard disk in the HCIL was shared by 14 users it was difficult to determine how and where space was used. Finding large files that could be deleted, or even determining which users consumed the largest shares of disk space were difficult tasks.
The Creators of 30 Programming Languages: pages, biographies, blogs, interviews | Little Tutorials
Behind any programming language there is a creator or sometimes a small team. Each language has a story and a philosophy and each creator had a motivation, a problem to solve. Programming languages influence and sometimes determine the way programmers solve problems and the way problems can be solved.