Python -- (just) a successful experiment?

[Peter Decker]

On 07 Aug 2005 02:42:43 -0700, Paul Rubin
<"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> bkhl at stp.lingfil.uu.se (Björn Lindström) writes:
> > I don't see why the things you talk about would have to be part of the
> > main Python distribution. Ruby on Rails seems to do pretty well without
> > being included with the core language.
> 
> I haven't used Ruby on Rails but from the description I saw, its distro
> includes everything needed, which I assume includes Ruby itself.

Here you go again: making pronouncements without actually knowing what
you are talking about. Just a few days ago you were trashing products
like Dabo, because they use things that aren't in the standard
distribution, and now you're approving of something like Rails because
it has a Windows package that installs everything you need, including
Ruby. Yet Dabo has had exactly the same thing for quite some time now
on Windows: a standard Windows installer that gives you Python,
wxPython, MySQLdb, kinterbasdb, etc., but you spent countless messages
trashing Dabo and anyone who  would consider using something like it,
because it "wasn't in the standard distribution".

> I have the impression that Zope is ungodly complex, and revolves around
> a weird and nonstandard database instead of having an SQL interface.

Wow, and I have the impression that you form opinions before you
actually experience something. Isn't there a word for such a person?
Hmmm.....
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