is this whiff/wsgi claim true?

[Michele Simionato]

On Sep 25, 4:26 pm, Aaron Watters <aaron.watt... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks.  I just modified the WHIFF concepts index page
>
>    http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/docs/W1000.concepts
>
> To include the following paragraph with a startling and arrogant
> claim in the final sentence :)
>
> """
> Developers build WHIFF applications much like they build
> static web content, PHP applications, JSP pages, or ASP
> pages among others -- the developer "drops" files into a
> directory, and the files are automatically used to respond
> to URLs related to the filename.
> **This intuitive and ubiquitous approach to organizing
> web components is not automatically supported by other
> WSGI infrastructures.**
> """
>
> [I go on to illustrate the concept with examples...]
>
> Is the final sentence true?  Are there other WSGI approach
> which make deploying a dynamic page as easy as putting
> an HTML file in a static directory?  If I'm lying I'd like to
> correct the statement and my knowledge of what else is out
> there is faulty and incomplete, so please correct me.
>
> Thanks,  -- Aaron Watters

To me, it looks like the approach Quixote used long before the coming
of WSGI
(see http://www.quixote.ca/learn/1 "How Quixote Works").

     M.S.