Saturday, 19 September 2015

meaning - What does "the look of" mean in this context?

The following phrase has been taken from Wikipedia's computer science style guides (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computer_science/Manual_of_style#Code_samples):
'Samples of actual source get included in articles for a variety of reasons, although the most typical reasons are to demonstrate the "look" of a particular language, to provide examples of language-specific constructs or features, and to provide examples of algorithms not easily expressed in pseudocode.'



What is the meaning of the 'to demonstrate the "look" of a particular language'?



I have two variants:



  1. to demonstrate particular language's point of view, approach, which is more at the logical level, than just visual representation


  2. to demonstrate how something (visually) looks like when written in a particular language. In this case "look" reminds of "look and feel" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_and_feel)


Or maybe neither variant is good.

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