What is Zope?

[Moshe Zadka]

> Heard much talk about it, gather it's some kind of Web server,
> but I haven't really found a good description of what exactly it is.

It's a web application server. What does that mean? 
In the early days of computing, you simply wrote hardware instructions.
Later, you were able to use languages like ASM, but you still had to
implement everything yourself. Then someone thought of the idea of
an operating system -- an environment, so you'll have an easier time
programming and a harder time shooting yourself in the foot. A web 
application server is like an operating system for web applications.
Sure, you could write CGIs (similar to programming directly to the
hardware) or Apache modules (similar to programming in assembler)
but all the little details would be up to you to maintain correctly.

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