"Eric W. Sink" wrote:
After all, a web developer who is a Python fanatic chooses Zope for its underlying language. [Sh|H]e is unlikely to react warmly to the stench of Perl and the hideous possibility that a customer might develop the expectation that Zope and Perl expertise would go hand in hand.
[ Oops, sorry. Did I accidentally let my personal scripting language bias show through in the previous paragraph? ;-) ]
:-). I think there is a significant proportion of Python programmers who are Perl refugees (funny, you don't hear much about the flip-side of that equation), so this announcement was bound to rub a few raw nerves the wrong way (if you pardon the metaphor mix). I'm glad my Perl maintenance days are (mostly) behind me (where the only # in a 4K+ script was the #! invocation at the start - shudder), so I wasn't too sure what I thought when I read the announcement. But I figure DC are pretty smart guys (heck, look at Zope - I couldn't dream that up in a month of Bourbon), and so far they've been on the ball, so let's give them the benefit of the doubt. Heck, might even win a few more Python cultists^Wactivists^Wenthusiasts along the way. :-) (* Other well thought comments regretfully snipped *). Regards, Daryl Tester