On 12/10/99 12:30 PM, Brian Salisbury at brian@hilarious.com wrote:
Everyone is talking about the difficulty in using Zope and how good Docs would help. I believe, in part, documentation is just masking part of the problem. Zope is way-to-difficult to use. If you're a programmer, you can trudge through and figure out how Zope works. But I'm not a programmer. I don't know what's going on at the code-level, and frankly, I don't want to have to know. If Zope is to truly adopt a wide user base, it's got to be easy enough that the average user and install and deploy Zope. Right now, it's just to complicated for me use. I've got a business to run, I don't have time to mess around with the particulars.
From teaching Zope to people, what I emphasise is the concepts, not the particulars. If people truly understand the idea of object traversal, acquisition, etc., then the rest is pretty wrote. Unfortunately, we've not done a good job of making the concepts as well explained as they should be.
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