[Web-SIG] Announcing bobo

[Jim Fulton]

On Jun 18, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Etienne Robillard wrote:
> It is suggested that most web frameworks authors aims at a very  
> (wide?)
> audience and bet that most peoples are bozos, clowns, or idiots. I  
> think
> this rationale might work in some cases, because users of thoses
> frameworks indeed might not have all those hard-core technical
> knowledges about, say, URL routing, WSGI or even schema migration.


I won't speak for other frameworks, but bobo's target audience is  
"idiots" in the same sense that the popular "idiot's guides" and  
"dummies" books are aimed at idiots and dummies.  Of course, these  
books and bobo aren't *really* aimed at idiots or dummies (or bozos or  
clowns -- well maybe clowns). They're aimed at people who don't really  
want hard-core knowledge. They want to learn something quickly so that  
they can get things done.  In my experience, many people writing web  
applications want to focus on their applications.  They aren't really  
interested in nitty-gritty plumbing details, they just want to get  
their application working well.  For many people, web development  
isn't their full time job.  It's one of many things they do and they  
don't want to have a lot to remember or re-learn. Many full-time web  
developers have more interesting things to focus on that publishing  
mechanics. I know I do.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation