Kevin Dangoor wrote:
I haven't heard of anyone standing up and saying "I'm not going to use Linux, because people might write tools in perl [or awk, or C, or lisp, or sh, or yacc or postscript, or ...]" Perhaps that's a better way to look at Zope... not as a python web application, but as a high-level OS extension for dynamic web applications.
The metaphore seems quite right! Some of its most significant features (Aquiition, ExtensionClass) are even written in C and mess with guts of python interpreter. See for example PostgreSQL - it has C, SQL, PL/SQL, TCL, Perl, Ruby and soon python as its server-side programming languages, with no real argument about weather to include yet another language - if you dont want/need/know how to use it you just ignore it ;) And it was originally written in lisp ;-9 --------- Hannu