Ouch. That hurts.
Where was this taken from?
It would be pretty difficult to explain the purpose of the mailing list I took that message from. Suffice it to say that most of the members are computer professionals. I disagree that the person who posted it has, "very little computer experience." Perhaps not much experience working with relatively immature open source software projects. I don't think they understood what an important resource the community is for finding information. My reason for posting this is what I said in the subject, a reality check. I love the enthusiasm that the Zope community has in general. But I think that the Zope community is largely made up of individuals who already really love Zope. I wanted to present the viewpoint of someone who has no bias for or against Python or Zope. I wanted to present an evaluation solely on the merits of whether it could get their job done. I wanted to point out what those people say Zope needs to have in order to win them over. If you imply that they are not experienced enough or intelligent enough or open-minded enough to use Zope then you are missing the point. Zope is a tool for web programmers, not Python programmers. It has to be useful to them if it is going to be successful. -jfarr