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# Glance
Glance is a visual syntax for the programming language Haskell. The goal of this project is to increase programmer happiness and productivity by allowing programmers to understand programs in new and different ways. Currently, the Glance executable produces a visual representation of your code in the form of an SVG image when given a textual Haskell source file. In the future, I hope to incorporate Glance into Haskell code editors, and to eventually create a visual editor for Haskell.
## Building
## Try it
First install Graphviz. For instance, in Ubuntu run:
```sudo apt install graphviz```
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```
firefox --new-window images/fact.svg
```
You should now see in your browser window a visual representation of the factorial function. Next, you will probably want to read the Getting Started guide below to help understand the images Glance generates.
## Issues
Glance is still in development, so for the time being, layout, routing, and icon design all have much room for improvement. Here are some specific issues: