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Jack Diederich
jack_diederich at email.com
Fri Jun 6 13:55:45 EST 2003
From: Todd Grimason <todd at slack.net> > Whether or not it's this frustration, or the ease of Python that results in so many people saying "ah heck, I'll write my own web framework" I can't say, but to this newcomer it starts to look like mature web development tools in Python are a mile-wide and an inch deep. No one can read all mailing lists, but this has been covered at length on comp.lang.python. The general feeling is that there are a lot of frameworks for a couple reasons: * No one has written a killer framework yet * Different users have different needs >From a marketing perspective it sucks because you can't say python is _this_ excact collection of tools. But python is a language and not a framework (and only sometimes a language coupled with a WWW framework). No one laments the variety of C web servers and frameworks. This is only a problem if you compare python to PHP. PHP isn't a language, (or if it is, it is a nasty little hack of a language) it is a specific framework for web stuff. I prefer python for web apps because I prefer python for everything (for a reasonable value of everything). But python isn't PHP and their goals & capabilities shouldn't be confused or compared. -jack -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
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