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| Date | 2015-08-13 19:05 -0600 |
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| From | Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Is Django the way to go for a newbie? |
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On 08/10/2015 10:08 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 8:59:47 AM UTC+5:30, Michael Torrie wrote: >> On 08/10/2015 07:49 PM, Dwight GoldWinde wrote: >>> Thank you, Gary, for this new information. >>> >>> I will be looking into virtualenv and vertualenvwrapper. >>> >>> I thought that Django was an IDE. But, it seems that an IDE is one more >>> thing that I need that I didn¹t know I needed!? >> >> Django is a programming _library_ (also called a framework) > > Please dont conflate library and framework. > Library, framework, DSL are different approaches for solving similar problems. > I personally tend to prefer DSL's, dislike frameworks and am neutral to libraries. > Which is why I would tend to start with flask + template-language + ORM > rather than start with a framework. > Others may have for very good reasons different preferences and that is fine¹. > > But if you say equate all these, discussion becomes a mess. Ahh. Well at least you didn't rail on me for being too lazy to capitalize acronyms like html. Given that until recently he thought Django was an IDE, I think calling Django a library is fair, as it describes to him how it relates to Python. You download it and install it and it goes in site-packages along with all the other libraries you might install. Of course it comes with utilities as well (which I mentioned). Making the distinctions you are making, in this context, is probably ultimately going to be confusing to him at this stage of the game. As he gets familiar with django I don't think he'll find this original simplification confusing, nor has it seemed to make this discussion a mess. As to the DSL, I'm not quite sure which part of django you're getting at. Are you referring to the (optional) templating system?
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Re: Is Django the way to go for a newbie? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 21:29 -0600
Re: Is Django the way to go for a newbie? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 21:08 -0700
Re: Is Django the way to go for a newbie? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-08-13 19:05 -0600
Re: Is Django the way to go for a newbie? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-08-13 18:30 -0700
Re: Is Django the way to go for a newbie? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-08-13 21:10 -0600
Re: Is Django the way to go for a newbie? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-08-14 06:23 +0200
Re: Is Django the way to go for a newbie? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-14 11:44 +1000
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