[Tutor] Need for pedestrian-level explaination

[Robin B. Lake]

Python looks great and I've already slayed a few dragons quickly
and simply with it.

However, the e-list postings often drop terms for which there are
no simple descriptions that are easily found.  I go back 25+ years
with C and 40 years with some pretty arcane programming languages, and
I'm worried that a neat language like Python, designed for the masses,
will "off" them because it isn't simple, stupid.

I.E.

Zope.  What is it?  What hardware does it require?  What good is it?
CVS.  ditto
IDLE.  ditto

and so forth.

Thanks,
Rob lake
rbl@hal.cwru.edu