that's an interesting point. i have this ongoing discussion with one of my best friends who does webdesign and web-programming (nothing on a real programming language level like perl or python) for a living. he swears by cold fusion. now, is zope really what cold fusion wants to be? i have to plead ignorance when it comes to using cold fusion, i never tried it. from what this friend keeps telling me it looks like cold fusion allows you to do the fancy shmancy graphics stuff pretty well with WYSIWIG editors and such. i don't think that's the road zope is going itself, zope as i see it is more about enabling, programming, and basically being the workhorse back-end to those graphics. of course this friend and i have discussed this quite often and we kid each other about what our favorite products can and can't do. in terms of the ability to use real programming, like zope, he says he doesn't want to get into it, or even shouldn't have to. for him it's the ability to present a winning design and do some point and click to connect to the database. time is money. i on the other hand love that programming stuff and can't stop having new and neat ideas about what to program. i think cold fusion and zope have a much-different philosophy. it's really hard to compare the two. just my $0.02 :) jens Jens Vagelpohl Systems Administrator Washtenaw Development Council
-----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Stephan Richter Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 19:29 To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] External Methods
I just read the chapter on External Methods. Since I am a big PYTHON fan, I love this feature. I believe now: Zope is what Cold Fusion wants to be. It is so much better designed. The idea that I need to write a DLL to get Programming Language Level feature support annoys me to death.
stephan -- Stephan Richter iXL - Software Designer and Engineer