Python not a Very High-Level Language?

[Darrell]

[Ajith Prasad]
> http://www.oreilly.com/news/vhll_1299.html is an article by
> Greg Wilson

>From the article, "I want to see a VHLL defined by an XML DTD."

Does Zope's DTML qualify as an XML language ?

I just finished a project that defined a text processing language with XML
tags. It works very well and everyone is happy. Of course now I need a new
Python job :)

On the down side it gets pretty verbose to write all those tags with out a
GUI. Although the users don't seem to mind.

Parsing was cake and being able to add defaultable attributes later that
didn't break existing code was very nice. Forgiving of the amateur language
designer.

A macro facility was a must and popular demand had macros create new tags on
the fly. So we couldn't parse against a DTD. Not sure this was a great loss
compared with how well the macros worked out.

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--Darrell