I realize you're just citing some examples, but I have a couple of suggestions of additional items to add to the list you mentioned.

Some products which I would have heard alot of good things about and/or used at some point and which would make good review subjects are: In Webserver extensions Mason. In tools perlapp (the ActiveState compiler, which I've found to be extremely reliable and useful despite the fact I generally code in a *nix environment). In editors Visual SlickEdit, which is an extremely robust and well-thought-out editor for Unix and Windows.

I also suggest expanding the category of editors to include IDEs, such as ActiveState's Komodo. One could also practically consider Emacs an IDE.

I think supercategories which may be worthwhile would be commercial vs. noncommercial applications. Amongst those who are not familiar with the power of the language, it is often misconstrued as a language most appropriate for either in-house development or noncommercial development. It would be nice to have commercial applications containing a set of subcategories so that folks could see what kind of commercial applications Perl is used for. I know of several commercial database tools, monitoring applications, etc. which are either partially or fully coded in Perl. Additionally, many users would probably want to know up front whether they're looking at something they have to pay for or not.

I would also include a Miscellaneous category. Where else would you put something like the Moaning Goat Meter, described as "the ultimate sixty-ton cast iron lawn ornament for the desktops of today's hacker set?" (I use it on all my workstations, and I love it!).

Finally, I would like to register my willingness to review some of the things mentioned above :-)

I think the idea is great, and I'd enjoy contributing where I can.

In reply to Re: Application Reviews by Starky
in thread Application Reviews by Coyote

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