[Zope3-dev] Number of languages in Zope 3

[Chris Withers]

Steve Alexander wrote:
> 
> I skimmed through the well-written documentation about how to extend 
> AOLserver in C. It is available from their web site.
> If it were not common to extend AOLserver in C, there would not be such 
> documentation.

That's a hypothesis ;-)

>> So, I count needing to know TCL and AOL's templating system.
> 
> And C and SQL.

I don't buy the C one there...

>> The SQL issue raises a good poit for me: all six of the languages 
>> needed for Zope 3 will be new ad never before seen languages for the 
>> majority of people who use them.
> 
> The TAL syntax is very similar to the current ASP syntax.

But will have to be learned from scratch nonetheless...

> Python looks pretty much like pseudocode.

Ditto

> I think we have established that it takes knowledge of an equivalent 
> number of languages to use OpenACS "completely" as it takes to use Zope 
> 3 "completely".

Well, I'm happy to leave this now and I guess time will tell...

cheers,

Chris