John Salerno wrote: > There is an article on oreilly.net's OnLamp site called "The World's > Most Maintainable Programming Language" > (http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/the_worlds_most_maintainable_p.html). > > > > It's not about a specific language, but about the qualities that would > make up the title language (learnability, consistency, simplicity, > power, enforcing good programming practices). I thought this might be of > interest to some of you, and I thought I'd point out the two places > where Python was mentioned: > > from Part 4, Power: > "Of course (second point), a language that requires users to extend it > to be productive has already failed, unless it can enforce that there is > one obvious solution to any problem and autonomously subsume the first > working solution into the core language or library. Python is a good > example of this practice. There is a strong polycultural subcommunity in > the world of free and open source, and the members of this group > consider the lack of competing projects in Python (one XML parser, one > logging library, one networking toolkit) to be counterintuitive and even > counter to the goal of language progress. They’re wrong; this is > actually a strong force for cohesion in the language and community, > where the correct answer to a novice’s question of “How can I parse > XML?”, “How can I publish a database-driven web site?”, or even “How can > I integrate the legacy system of an acquired company from a different > industry with our existing legacy system?” (to prove that this principle > does not only apply to small or toy problems) is usually “Someone else > has already implemented the correct solution to that problem — it is > part of the standard library.”"
xml templates ? ORM ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list