Hi Philip,
On 07/01/11 18:17, Philip wrote:
Web2py is to me the next generation of MS Access, and I mean that as a
compliment. MS Access first opened up the world of database-driven
applications to business people. With Access they could throw
together a simple application to manage a database (CRUD and reports)
without having to hire a developer or wait on their IT staff to write
one. Web2py does the same thing. It is easy enough for a business
user to throw something together very quickly and be up and running
immediately. The amount of development expertise required is
trivial. For a basic app, if you read the web2py book, you don't even
have to understand more than the very basics of python.
+1
I'm database developer (going back to DataEase for DOS and FoxPro, and
the IBM S/26) in need of a data-driven front end, and I see web2py as
the perfect tool for me. I have no desire to tinker /inside/ web2py - I
just want to use it to develop apps.
Rather than competing with Django /et al/, which are defined as much by
a culture as the technology, I'd like to see some advocacy to promote
web2py to people who simply aren't in a position to use Django, but who
can get up to speed with web2py very easily.
The comment earlier about Massimo's approach being informed by his
teaching experience seemed very sharp to me.
For really, big complex apps, there may be some reason that Django is
preferable - I'll leave that to the professional web developers to
figure out the tools they need - but I can't say enough about how
great my experience has been with web2py, as a non-developer looking
for the "tools that in the easiest manner facilitate the creation of
what I want to do" (to use your words). I just needed to get stuff
done, and web2py worked.
Just so.
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Cheers,
PhilK
