REPOST: Re: Python Popularity: Questions and Comments

[Roy Smith]

tatebll at aol.com (Bill Tate) wrote:
> This past spring, I spent a full month pouring over Zope in detail.  I
> pulled every example product I could find that I thought would be
> relative to the purpose of setting up a commercial-based application. 
> I downloaded the tutorial and the draft zope book.  I pulled down
> every bit of documentation I could find for developers.  In so many
> cases, I found whatever documentation was available that key aspects
> of the implementation took the "assumed facts-already-in-evidence"
> approach; omitting key details that would were critical to improving
> my understanding of using Zope.  

Unfortunately, I have to agree.  I've looked at Zope a few times, because 
the hype sounded really cool (as all good hype should).  But, every time I 
ever tried to understand it to the level of, "OK, so how do I actually 
write an application using this", I was stumped.

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