[Zope] Isn't DTML more like what other frameworks do?

[Dieter Maurer]

Andreas Jung wrote at 2007-1-8 19:08 +0100:
> ...
>The question is: what is easier to learn and to understand - DTML or ZPT?
>Can you explain the "nonsense" of the _ namespace in DTML to a newbie?

Sure.

There is only one caveat: that two positional arguments need to
be passed for recursive calls of DTML objects ("None" and "_").

>Can you explain the sequence-item magic with all special cases to a newbie?

There is no need. Newbies do not need to know *all* special cases
only the most essential ones.

The myriads of TALES expression types are almost as bad the
"sequence-item" special cases.

>ZPT is another approach to generate HTML. It's more logical, easier to learn
>and read.

This is arguable...



-- 
Dieter