[Zope] mixing python and DTML is hellish!

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Peter Bengtsson wrote
> Secondly, ZPT "code" tends to be a bit longer (in amount of characters) and 
> Python advocates don't really like this.

I think it's safe to say that I'm a "python advocate" and I reject this
statement, utterly. 

Clarity always wins over code size. If I cared about byte counts of 
my code, I'd use perl and it's magic line noise encoding. 

The key argument against DTML for me is that it is a slippery slippery
slope that leads to something horrible like PHP. I have a large web 
application that's been under development for 3 years now (in Zope) and
it's full of crufty nasty DTML. Making the DTML go away is a key thing
that we are now working on.

Anthony
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