Hello I can tell you my personal experience: I found Zope for chanche, had no clue about Python, read the Python tutorial, read the Zope book, in two afternoons I wrote a simple agenda application, tested XML in another afternoon, and while munching my sandwich I got interfaced to java, scrambled with perl and I was hacking my Oracle instance like I always used zope..... I am sorry you missed the Zope book, but I wouldn't say that zope is difficult to learn....it is true however that for advanced tricks the documentation is lacking, but I have just watched this list and always found answers to my questions even without posting.... Sorry for your problems. Regards Stefano To: zope@zope.org From: zooko@zooko.com Reply-to: zooko@zooko.com Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 13:59:00 -0800 Subject: [Zope] data point on ease of learning Zope -- I give up.

Hi Zopesters! ...... So now I give up. I'm going to install apache (`apt-get install apache'), and use the Python bsddb module for a simple dict-like database. ......