reoganization of free compilers posting

As you probably know, my catalog of free language tools has come back to
me.


When Mark took it over, I knew it was too big. Now that it's back, I'm
going to do something about it.


I'm going to split it up into a whole bunch of sections. Each section
will cover one type of language. Each section will have cross-references
for those languages that aren't nice enough to fit into just one section.
I will provide an index and a table of contents (what a pain!).


I'm trying to figure out what the sections should be.


The basic idea of a section is that if you are intersted in one language
in a section, you might be interested in others.


So far I've got:


assemblers
compiler generators
concurrent
distributed
educational
functional
general purpose - compiled
interprters, scripting languages, and embeddable languages
logic
math
natural
postfix (forth)
prefix (lisp, scheme)
shells
simulation
special purpose
text generating (troff, tex)
toy languages


Most of the languages fit into one of the catagories fairly clearly.
Some of them I'm not sure about at all.


should FORTRAN go in "math" or "general pupose"?
should my "interprters, scripting languages, and embeddable languages"
catagory be broken up? If so, what happens to perl, elk, & tcl?
what catagory whould LIFE be in?
what should I call the catagory that includes scheme and lisp?
is it fair to call basic "educational"?
should the educational catagory even exist?
loopn is a simulation language, right?
what catagory is Q in?
what catagory is self in?
who do I ask about other languages?


-Dave


P.S. Does anyone want to take over maintenance of the catalog, or pay for
the maintenance? Who do I call at the NSF to ask them to pay for it?
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