"Monika Jisswel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > confused & maybe lost. my choice to go python was because i could > feel its > power from the first applications I could develop, then were able to > modify > (in no time), expand (with no single problem & in no time) ... I > want to > feel the same experience again in web development .
I sympathise but feel you will be dissapointed. The web is almost by its nature a mess. It is a hodge podge of ideas glued onto what was originally intended as a simple documentation repository. Berners-Lee never expected http/html to become the main application framework of the 21st century. We have got to where we are with web technology by a triumph of innovation over good engineering. The result is a bunch of technologies and frameworks that often don't work well together and are either insecure, unreliable or both. There are moves afoot to addresss most of these things (Web services, new http versions, xhtml etc) but none of these are mature yet and even fewer are in widespread use. The result is that you can choose whichever framework you like and it will serve you fairly well, but with limitations. So in shhort there is no equivalent to Python application programming for the web. This probably shouldn't surprise us, the web is only 15 years old, computing is about 60 years old. Python was created with about 45 years of research behind it, the web is still being invented. HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
