[thelist] What's a Programmer To Do?

[Martin Burns]

On 1 Apr 2009, at 19:58, Barney Carroll wrote:

> Otherwise if you prefer more OO programming type
> stuff, and you have Python on the host, Plone is pretty damn great.

...until you want to migrate *off* it, and then it's the very arse of  
Beelzebub.

Performance ain't great either, unless you've got heavyweight tin.

> Anybody else here a fan of Zope and tal templating?

While there's lots of good stuff in Zope, the proprietory database  
that's not amenable to SQL is a big roadblock.

I know you *theoretically* can use an RDBMS, but really, does anyone?

Cheers
Martin

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