Wordling Your Code Base With Vim

Visualizing your code base using wordle is a nice technique to get a quick overview and impression of your source code. The downside is that you need to concatenate all your source code into a single text file before you can paste it into Wordle. In Linux, this is most easy to accomplish using command line tools. In Windows environments, however, you may not have cygwin installed, and so Vim is probably the easiest solution. (Update: A total of 35 key presses are required for this example.) Read more