[Zope] Pluggable brains?

[Jim Fulton]

Tony McDonald wrote:
> 
> >Yes.  Sorry for the term, I picked it up from Jim Fulton back when it was
> >an about-to-be-added feature for Principia/Aqueduct.  As with so many
> >Fultonisms, it's vivid and tends to stick in one's (non-pluggable) brain.
> >
> 
> At last! an explanation....I came across this term and thought it was
> the strangest thing I'd seen in a software description for a long
> time (visions of Igor passing a 'fresh brain' to a ZopeMeister came
> to mind!).

Not a bad analogy.  I picture a lump of inanimate flesh (a result from a 
relational database query) being infused with the spark of life (object
behavior, aka class).

Jim

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