PL-phylogeny

[GitHub]

This is an attempt to build an evolutionary tree of programming languages derived from “analogous” code snippets. The idea was to take a technique I learned in a bioinformatics class– to compare snippets of DNA from different species and build a phylogenetic tree– and apply the same technique to bits of computer code.

This project plays with applying concepts from biology/bioinformatics in a new and unusual way.