Re: [boost] [website] Proposal for new page - Libraries By Type

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-20 20:37:36

Beth Jacobson <bethj_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Beth Jacobson <bethj_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> 
>> 
>>>** Text and Number Handling - These range from enhancements to improve 
>>>accuracy and performance to full-featured libraries suitable for 
>>>advanced text and mathematical processing.
>> 
>> 
>> I like everything but this one.  In what way do text processing and
>> numerics belong together?  Feels arbitrary to me.
>> 
>
> Both of them, along with system-level, are different from the rest of 
> the categories because the decision to use them has to do with the type 
> of application you're writing. Any program could potentially benefit 
> from language enhancements, code generation, etc, but there's not much 
> use for text handling libraries unless your app handles text. Also, the 
> other categories seem to naturally group libraries of similar complexity 
> together, while text and numerics are all over the map.
>
> I suppose the real reason I put those two together is that they both 
> kind of bother me. The categories are too useful to consider eliminating 
> them, but they don't quite fit the with rest of the list. That doesn't 
> really justify expicitly grouping them though. Maybe it would be better 
> just to put system-level, text, and numerics at the end of the list.

No strong opinions here.  For once ;-)
-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com