Oops. Slight clarification: On 4/29/05, Jeremy Hylton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm also skeptical of a plan that sets out to build the one right way > that everyone will use. I don't know anything about the history of > Rails, but I'm guessing that the project didn't start because Matz > said "Build the official web toolkit for Ruby users" and it didn't > become successful because Ruby programmers adopted it. That is, I > imagine it became popular because people liked it and not because > people agreed in advance that the would like it.
... and not because people agreed in advance that they would like it. Also, I imagine that Rails became popular enough that it lead people to Ruby rather than the other way around. Of course, Zope has been drawing people to Python for a long time; it just hasn't had much appeal as a general tool for Python programmers. Jeremy _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
