[Zope] Giving up in frustration

[Thaxter, Jason M.]

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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