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It would be nice to see these heat maps normalized by the average frequency of each key. Then you can really see what stands out about each particular language.


... and normalized against the frequency of each letter in a dictionary of common English words. Most likely, 'e' is common in programming because it's the most common letter in English:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency




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