On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:55 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is this correct? In my limited understanding of web frameworks....it > seems the world started out with difficult to learn options like Zope, > J2EE and ASP. > no it started out with perl under CGI to generate html. Then those grew then people realized they where too complex and simpler solutions arrived.
By the way I wouldn't mix asp with j2ee/zope unless you are talking about asp.net but that's way way newer so sa usual is MS landing with new stuff in an already dying market :) > Then if I'm not mistaken, Ruby on Rails came up with some innovative > ideas to make things easier that TG, Django and other frameworks > borrowed heavily from. > Actually no, Django (as a closed source project) is at least as old as ror http://www.ohloh.net/p/django/analyses/latest http://www.ohloh.net/p/rails/analyses/latest TG1 borrowed a lot from all over the place, and was started by the end of 06 http://www.ohloh.net/p/turbogears/analyses/latest As usual the ideas where always there and you had many people doing them, RoR simply got the credit. > Is that right?....What are these innovative ideas that Rails came up > with that distinguishes TG/Django/Rails from Zope/J2EE/ASP that they > all have in common? > That's a very long answer mainly you will need to look at each component and see how it's done on the older framework. As a simple example, write JS by hand, vrs prototype, another one will be complex URL-> method dispatch vs routes. > Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
