10 Nov
2003
10 Nov
'03
5:49 p.m.
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 07:36, Wilson, Derek wrote:
DTML is dead, long live ZPT!
Oh for heaven's sake. DTML may be a crufty, aesthetically noxious historical artifact... but it's miles away from dead. In point of fact, it's not the least bit clear that that ZPT usage even *exceeds* DTML usage. And though you may not find us blowing our horns quite as loudly, there are more than a few here who *prefer* DTML's trade-offs to ZPT's. The history of computing is teeming with examples of "worse" solutions that have enjoyed considerably greater success than their "better" counterparts. DTML may be one such case where worse *is* better. Somewhat related: http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better YMMV, IMO, $.02 & all that. Dylan