Could a single web framework popularize Python?

[Alex Martelli]

A.M. Kuchling wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:18:37 GMT,
> Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
>> I think you're wrong, but I admit I'm guessing.  To me, particularly
>> networking at OSCON, it seemed as if Parrot was generating lots of buzz.
> 
> Buzz, sure -- people are willing to *talk* about it, but people are
> willing
> to talk and opine about anything.  When it comes to actually devoting
> coding time to the project, however, people are much more conservative.

That is quite possible: I have no idea how well Parrot's coding is
actually progressing, your knowledge about that is much higher!


>> to get inspiration from.  I've often seen PHP'ers moving to Python
>> bemoan the fact that www.python.org isn't community-run and intense-
>> community-involvement the way www.php.org is -- that seems as inevitable
>> a complaint as Perlites-moving-to-Python's hankering for CPAN.
> 
> Did you mean PHP.net, not PHP.org?  PHP.org seems to be just a bunch of
> forums; PHP.net has more content, but it's not clear how the site is more
> community-oriented than python.org; are you referring to the annotatable
> documentation, or to something else?

I'm referring, vaguely and second-hand, to what PHPers trying out Python
seem to say pretty often and uniformly -- and it's quite possible that
they're referring to the .net rather than the .org site.  "Annotatable"
docs (perhaps with some overview) sure sounds like a way-cool idea, but
I have no first-hand experience of how well it works in practice.


Alex