Zope 3.0, and why I won't use it

[Carlos Ribeiro]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:41:13 -0500, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> You managed to get it to run? I found the whole load opaque beyond
> belief, and removed it after an hour's examination.

>From time to time, I download Zope, try it a little bit, and uninstall
it. Perhaps I am too dumb for it (which may be the case) :-( ... but I
somehow feel that there is a problem, for I am not alone in this
feeling. For me, Zope lacks Python's inherent clarity; it seems that
it requires a 'mental mode' of its own. Many things are not obvious,
in the way they normally are when I am working with Python. This
places a lot of burden on the documentation, which - as said elsewhere
- is confusing. It's a shame.

(The best image that I can cast is of a rough gem. A good gem cutter
can see the finished gem through layers of dirty, and locate the
correct planes to cut. For others, even knowing that the gem is inside
there is not enough, for they can't see it until finished. For me Zope
looks like an still unfinished gem, and even if I know that there is a
beautiful gem inside, I can't just see it there.)

-- 
Carlos Ribeiro
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