[ZPT] Re: Confused about Zope

[Godefroid Chapelle]

Fernando Martins wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote:
> 
>>Evan Simpson wrote:
>>
>>>>The idea I was going on, though, is to *avoid* breaking from TAL--I
>>>>wanted people to learn TAL then reuse those skills for non-XML.
>>>
>>>I suggest that TAL (as opposed to TALES) is so *small* that there is
>>>very little knowledge there worth transferring to another domain.
>>
>>I beg to differ. Especially when they have to learn an
>>alternative to TAL for a
>>specific need that ends up being a whole new language like PTL.
>>
> 
> 
> As a newbie, I support this view. However, I believe (very subjective) that
> the syntax <replace=".."> is a reasonable compromise because to go from ZPT
> to it I just have to think everything is the same except that I don't need
> "tal:x" and that's it.
> 
> Give me more differences to keep in mind and it's not worth it. In fact, I
> suspect it would be even worth than having dtml as I might do more mistakes.
> 
> And I quite like the syntax as I get simpler to read code (better for
> maintenance, etc) and no silly typing.
> 
> My 0.02 cents,

I agree with Fernando that this avoidance of "tal:x " is simple enough. 
Going further would break the "only one language" that Chris pushes for.

We should reuse not invent again sthing new.

But we should go on with this thread : what have been told about CSS, 
JavaScript and others... is too much worth to stop now.
> 
> Fernando