Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I think I can comment on som eof teh 'revulsion' of many of the > persons on the list. Some of us have/do hang out on c.l.python and > c.l.perl. We have witness _ferst_hand_ this 'community's collective > 'gargabe'. TO compare the two communities, you start with how they act/ > do not act as one. First place to look: usenet, the sewer. In c.l.perl, > any mention of non-perl, or anything less than absolute praise for perl, > will land you in a flame war the likes or which satan himself wears > asbestos clothing for (and if you mention python, satan bows out due to > heat). I have seen people _try_ to start flame wars on c.l.py, and fail > 99% of the time. I have only once seen something close to a flame war on > c.l.py in many years. And in that was due in a large part to the other > person in it (those who witnessed it now who I am speaking of). The fallacy here is simply that Zope is adding a language, not a newsgroup. There are people who code Perl, Python and Zope every day and don't know, care about, read or post to comp.lang.anything. Bajillions of them in fact - a healthy majority. The decision whether to add a language should NOT be made on the basis of what a few Usenet addicts think. It should be made on the basis (among others) of whether it adds desirable functionality and "marketability" (for profit or otherwise) without fatally complicating the product. I think Perl methods will be very popular and not particularly difficult to maintain as a Zope feature, although I do anticipate some complications down the road as new Zope, Python and Perl releases see the light of day and have to co-exist on various platforms. > I can pretty much gaurantee that oce we start getting perl people on the > list, doing stuff in perl, the following scenario will occur repeatedly: > > "I want to do this, how do I do it?" > "like this...<python code>" > "I don;t want to use python, I want to use the all cool lnaguage of > perl" > "Sorry, can't help you" ... Actually what will probably happen is that someone will ask "I want to do this, how do I do it" and one or more Python enthusiasts will say "like this... <python code>" and one or more Perl enthusiasts will SIMULTANEOUSLY say "like this... <perl code>" and the user will pick what suits them, and get back to work. Only the professional arguers will have the time to fight over this stuff. _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )