OpenEuphoria

Re: program types

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Sep 20, 2004
• 451 views

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:52:03 -0700, david <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
wrote:

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>posted by: david <studmeow at hotmail.com>
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>Sometime ago (@ a year or so) I read a message on this board that 
>stated that there were a set number of program or file types (@ 4 
>or 5, I think), & that anything written would fall into one of 
>those categories. Any constructive response is appreciated.

Reminds me of this thread:
http://www.listfilter.com/cgi-bin/esearch.exu?fromMonth=C&fromYear=7&toMonth=9&toYear=9&postedBy=&keywords=kudos

(If the above link wraps, visit
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/listserv.htm
and select Dec 2002 to Feb 2003, keyword 'kudos'

If I had to pick five categories, they would be:

	human text - mainly program sources
	machine generated text - eg xml data
	machine code - ie programs
	proprietory/encrypted data
	open data - ie complex, but known format.

but you could add/subdivide them all day.

Regards,
Pete