I've come across the use of 'Zen' in Python contexts: this is the likely origin, I would guess... But there's no question that without a certain Zope-Zen, it's extremely weird to start poking below the surface of this puppy. Some days I have it, some days I don't. At the same time, the *way* it's difficult is also what makes it powerful. And when you "get it", it's extremely easy to do extremely powerful things --flexibly-- and in more than one way. Perhaps the UNIX types here are more familiar with that phenom...
-----Original Message----- From: Anthony Pfrunder [mailto:s341625@student.uq.edu.au] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 7:14 PM To: kent@goathill.org Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Giving up in frustration
On 17 Aug 1999, Kent Polk wrote:
On 17 Aug 1999 09:35:01 -0500, Michel Pelletier wrote:
Ah yes, the Zen of Zope. Not magic, just some really different and powerful technology that no one else has thought of yet. Nobody really knows where the 'Zen' moniker came up but it's not a bad analogy; when
[great piece of history snipped]
We need a Zen of Zope history page!
Kent Polk
Cheers,
Anthony Pfrunder
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