[Zope] Re: Perl and Zope

2000-05-25 Thread Tom Neff
As one of the original Perl Hackers I agree that this irrational Perl Hate Minute stuff is silly. To some extent language preferences are religious, but that doesn't mean we need a holy war! My response to the "I emigrated penniless from my home country rather than use Perl, now you want to prof

[Zope] Re: language != newsgroup

2000-05-26 Thread Tom Neff
Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I think I can comment on som eof teh 'revulsion' of many of the > persons on the list. Some of us have/do hang out on c.l.python and > c.l.perl. We have witness _ferst_hand_ this 'community's collective > 'gargabe'. TO compare the two communities, y

[Zope] Re: lambda et al in PythonMethods and DTML

2000-05-30 Thread Tom Neff
I agree with Lalo and others that powerful (but secure) Python features like lambda and map should be available, especially in PythonMethods. You want to encourage people to use these whenever possible instead of hacking the source tree. I also think that it would be a MISTAKE to have a wide div

[Zope] RE: Zope digest, Vol 1 #810 - 56 msgs

2000-06-01 Thread Tom Neff
Luis Cortes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying HomeSite HTML Editor - which is really slick for > somethings. > I was wondering if there was some easy way to turn off the > mangling of dtml tags when switching between design view and edit > view??? HomeSite is indeed a wonderful prog