[Zope] Zope/HTML developer in Emeryville, CA

Dylan Reinhardt zope at dylanreinhardt.com
Mon Nov 10 12:49:40 EST 2003


On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 07:36, Wilson, Derek wrote:
> DTML is dead, long live ZPT!

Oh for heaven's sake.

DTML may be a crufty, aesthetically noxious historical artifact... but
it's miles away from dead.  In point of fact, it's not the least bit
clear that that ZPT usage even *exceeds* DTML usage.  And though you may
not find us blowing our horns quite as loudly, there are more than a few
here who *prefer* DTML's trade-offs to ZPT's.

The history of computing is teeming with examples of "worse" solutions
that have enjoyed considerably greater success than their "better"
counterparts.  DTML may be one such case where worse *is* better.

Somewhat related: http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

YMMV, IMO, $.02 & all that.

Dylan




More information about the Zope mailing list