<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Feb 16, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV> build -- some sort of build system (Makefile, SCons, …)</DIV><DIV> framework -- a framework (OpenGL, Rails, Django, Qt, …)</DIV><DIV> gtd -- some sort of GTD (GTD, GTDAlt, TODO, …)</DIV><DIV> mac -- mac-specific (AppleScript, Xcode, …)</DIV><DIV> mail -- related to emails (Mail, …)</DIV><DIV> markup -- markup language (XML, Textile, reST, …)</DIV><DIV> programming -- programming language (Ruby, C, …)</DIV><DIV> prose -- structured text (LaTeX, Markdown, …)</DIV><DIV> scm -- revision control system (Subversion, CVS, …)</DIV><DIV> utility -- stuff which is useful tools (Math, Remind, …)</DIV><DIV> web -- web related (HTML, Symfoni, PHP, …)</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>framework is just too vague.</DIV><DIV>Having OpenGL in the same category as RubyOnRails is just silly.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>There are enough web frameworks to justify another main category.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000" face="Courier" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">applications -- interfaces to the outside (blogging, web search, Terminal, Mail? …)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000" face="Courier" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">build -- some sort of build system (Makefile, SCons, …)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000" face="Courier" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">file formats -- data files, not 'markup' (plist, iCalendar, sshd, Tabular, …)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000" face="Courier" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">framework -- a framework (OpenGL, Qt, …)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000" face="Courier" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">markup -- markup language (XML, Textile, LaTeX, Markdown, tablature, …)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000" face="Courier" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">productivity -- (GTD, GTDAlt, TODO, Remind …)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000" face="Courier" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">source code -- programming language (Ruby, C, …)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000" face="Courier" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">scm -- revision control system (Subversion, CVS, …)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000" face="Courier" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">tools -- generic commands for text manipulation (Math, …)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000" face="Courier" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000" face="Courier" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">web -- basic web related (HTML,XHTML,CSS,JS, …)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000" face="Courier" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">web framework -- extra/more specific web related junk (Rails, Django, Prototype, jQuery, …)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — sixteenColors</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>