On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Steve Howell <[email protected]> wrote: > Great email, Mike, it is interesting to hear all the historical context. One > of the things that originally drew me to Python was Cheetah FWIW. I used > cheetah for some pretty small stuff, and eventually stopped using it (even > though it worked fine), but then cheetah got me hooked on python itself.
Yea Cheetah! I have some fond memories of (mis)using cheetah to maintain a huge pile of just-slightly-different SQL code. I haven't used it yet, but JSON Template seems very interesting to me: http://json-template.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/Introducing-JSON-Template.html There are both javascript and python parsers for it, which means you can re-use snippets in both server side and client side processing. The main thing that caught my attention though, is the declarative looping. That reads very nicely to me. It's the first time I remember seeing that - anyone know the roots of that idea? Take care, -Brian
