[Zope] Re: [Zope-Annce] ANN: Perl For Zope - why I'm bummed

[Hannu Krosing]

Kevin Dangoor wrote:
> 
> 
> I haven't heard of anyone standing up and saying "I'm not going to use
> Linux, because people might write tools in perl [or awk, or C, or lisp, or
> sh, or yacc or postscript, or ...]" Perhaps that's a better way to look at
> Zope... not as a python web application, but as a high-level OS extension
> for dynamic web applications.

The metaphore seems quite right!

Some of its most significant features (Aquiition, ExtensionClass) are
even 
written in C and mess with guts of python interpreter.

See for example PostgreSQL - it has C, SQL, PL/SQL, TCL, Perl, Ruby and 
soon python as its server-side programming languages, with no real
argument 
about weather to include yet another language - if you dont
want/need/know
how to use it you just ignore it ;) 
And it was originally written in lisp ;-9

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Hannu