From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-01-26T10:57:28+09:00
Subject: Re: RAA proposal

On Sunday, 26 January 2003 at 10:48:02 +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Mark and I had a conversation on the categorization of RAA modules, and I 
> think we (well, actually Mark) came up with something good.  I would also 
> like to present a proposal for a RAA interface.  Both of these things are 
> demonstrated in the following website:
> 
> http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/raa/index.html
> 
> First of all, the top-level categories would be:
> 
> 1.  Business
> 2.  Database
> 3.  Data Structures
> 4.  Science
> 5.  User Interface
> 6.  Networking & Web
> 7.  Development
> 8.  Text Processing (Language Processing?)
> 9.  Security
> 10. Media  
> 
> These categories seem to be complete, intuitive and yet not so many as to 
> clutter the page.  A more complete description (including subcategories) 
> is included at the end of this message.
 
 Hmm... this was discussed some time back. I'm not sure we can come
 up with a comprehensive top level list. Below is a trimmed list
 of the the top level of the bsd ports:

 biology         ftp             mbone           shells
 cad             games           misc            sysutils
 multimedia      textproc        comms           graphics        
 net             converters      news
 databases       palm            www             deskutils
 irc             x11             Templates       
 x11             Tools           archivers       editors         
 print           astro           emulators       lang            
 audio           finance         mail            science
 benchmarks      math            security        

Some of these you mention. Others, I think some could be added
to your list above.

> Here is the more complete set of categories (Mark, tell me if I got 
> something wrong):
> 
> 1.  Business
>        e-commerce
>        finance
> 
> 2.  Data Structures
>        Algorithm
>        Array   
>        Binary  
>        Enumerable
>        Graph   
>        Hash
>        Queue
>        Stack
>        Time
>        Tree
> 
> 3.  Database
>        MySQL
>        Postgresql
>        
> 4. Development Support
>        Benchmark
>        CVS
>        Compression
>        Debugging
>        Design Patterns
>        Integrated Development Environment
>        Internationalization
>             I18N
>        Operating System Interfaces
>             Be
>             BSD
>             Dos  
>             Linux
>             Mac
>             Solaris
>             Windows
>        Testing
>   
> 5.  Media
>        Audio
>        Graphics
>        Icons
>        MIDI
>        Mp3
>        Speech
> 
> 6.  Networking & Web
>        Distributed Computing
>        Mail and Usenet News
>        World Wide Web
>           CGI
>           Jabber
> 
> 7.  Science
>        Biology
>        Math
>        Computer Science
>        AI   
>        Languages
>           C 
>           Forth
>           Lisp
>           Lua
>           Python
>        Physics
>        Chemistry
> 
> 8.  Security
>        Cryptography
> 
> 9. Text Processing
>        PDF 
>        regular expressions
>        yaml
> 
> 10. User Interfaces
>        Fox
>        Gtk  
>        Qt
>        Text (curses, etc.?)
>        Tk
>        Wx
>        X Windows

-- 
Jim Freeze
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