
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Skip Montanaro wrote: [...]
libraries (and thus use by a critical mass) not in the core that much higher. There are how many Python Server Pages like things?
#$&$&%. Don't worry; even if we only look at those on CPAN we have more templating systems in Perl than you would ever want to count.
They probably all have some very nifty features, but tend to be used by rather small pockets of people, at least relative to the overall segment of the Python community doing webish stuff. I'm not entirely sure why that's the case, but I suspect it has to do in part with the barrier to discovering, downloading, and installing these packages.
Nah, some things just have to be implemented and reimplemented and reimplemented and reimplemented in slightly different ways. :-) - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://ask.netcetera.dk/ !try; do(); more than a billion impressions per week, http://valueclick.com