[Zope3-dev] Zope 3 Newsletter: Issue 10

[Chris Withers]

Stephan Richter wrote:

> You make a false assumption here. The script support is **not** for 
> programmers, but for **scripters**. We do not want to go back to the PHP, but 
> yet we have to ask ourselves why PHP is so successful. We have thought about 
> this a bit and noticed that sometimes quick and dirty is what you want to do 
> or the only thing someone starting with programming knows how to do.

How would you judge if that's a big win in the long run, though?

> This support is not meant for the serious application developer. For scripters 
> code duplication is not as much of an issue or will not occur, since they 
> simply do not know how to do it better. 

Encouraging this is not a good idea :-(

cheers,

Chris