On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:00 PM, DiPierro, Massimo <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > Mind that my opinion is biased since I am the author of web2py.
<< snip >> > I will be happy to answer more specific questions on the topic but I am in > India for a physics conference and have limited connectivity. I have to be > concise and canno check emails often until Monday. You may want to consider > asking for some user experience on the web2py list > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py. > > Massimo > Hi Massimo -- Thank you for jumping in here. I've seen a web2py demo (by yourself) at a Pycon, impressive. Note that I'm not involved in this particular GAE project, am only commenting from a distance. I don't think the Python community is at a disadvantage just because there's nothing quite as dominant as Rails has been in Ruby world. RUBY ===== I did a quick scan for Ruby web frameworks that are *not* Rails and came up with Sinatra, Ramaze and Merb. I'm sure I missed some. SCHEME ======= In Scheme world we have Flapjax (client side), Lylux (pipeline, controller), Snooze (DBI) http://www.flapjax-lang.org/ http://blog.plt-scheme.org/2007/08/experience-report-scheme-in-commercial.html I mentioned Scheme in particular because I've been hanging out with functional programmers on math-thinking-l recently. Some of those folks have been reminding me of their low opinion of anything object oriented, whereas I've been exulting about Python as a math-learning tool, in part because of its strong concept of types (dynamic, but not weak): http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-essays.html (see essay (b) linked from this blog post if keen to read more) Scheme and LISP are famously typeless. Hey, I didn't realize GIMP came with a dialect of Scheme for scripting, called Script-Fu. http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-script-fu.html That's like using LISP to control emacs... ...or like using Ruby to control Google Sketchup. http://sketchup.google.com/download/rubyscripts.html AND SO ON... =========== PHP and J2EE still dominate don't they? I don't have any numbers handy. Then there's .NET, which might include Python again.... On and on it goes, eh? Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
