[Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

[michael bayer]

On Apr 15, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Brendan O'Connor wrote:

> Amen.  I don't mean to slam the work of any web framework developers, 
> but you can't overestimate how much it helps just-beginning web 
> developers to see a unified framework, or at least a good website that 
> directs them to one particular way to do things. 

this is what i dont understand; whats so hard about doing a little 
research ?  why do people need to be told only one way of doing things 
?  python is not the the mcdonalds of computer languages...its 
sophisticated and thoughtful.   If youre dealing with a thoughtful and 
sophisticated community, you need to approach it in a more thoughtful 
and sophisticated way.    its reasonable to expect the community to 
work up some standards for interoperability....but less so to present a 
monolithic one-size-fits-all methodology to the masses so that nobody 
need be bothered with some thinking and decision making.   that just 
dulls the community down to its most unsophisticated level and insures 
only the most mediocre outcomes.