Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.008 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'pycon': 0.03; 'subject:Django': 0.03; 'python': 0.09; 'django,': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:Why': 0.09; 'django': 0.10; 'language': 0.14; 'defacto': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:popular': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'then.': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'perl': 0.29; 'maybe': 0.29; 'that.': 0.30; 'fri,': 0.30; 'sense': 0.31; 'good.': 0.32; 'choices': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'false': 0.35; 'subject:?': 0.35; "won't": 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; "didn't": 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'gives': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'called': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'real': 0.61; 'back': 0.62; 'more': 0.63; 'url:1999': 0.74; '2013': 0.84; 'received:sd.cox.net': 0.84; 'url:03': 0.84; 'rusi': 0.91; 'choice.': 0.93; 'luck': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: python-list@python.org To: python-list@python.org From: rh Subject: Re: Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django? Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 13:24:07 -0800 Organization: " " References: <2fc87695-9d0b-45b3-ae96-98e0591b30a0@googlegroups.com> <3d9fe0b2-7931-4ab6-8929-235460729c64@q9g2000pbf.googlegroups.com> <2eeb2376-980f-4204-8b5a-e0c2b7da39a3@kn5g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-227-87-145.sb.sd.cox.net User-Agent: dsodnetnin X-Mailer: EZnn0.37p X-Newsreader: EZnn0.37p X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: EZnn0.37p Original-Received: from slem by 1.1 with local X-No-Archive: yes Archive: no X-Archive: expiry=11 X-Archive: encrypt X-Operating-System: Barebones_6.1 X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.168.1.1 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.168.1.1 Mail-Copies-To: never X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1362777810 news.xs4all.nl 6899 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:49268 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:40902 On Fri, 8 Mar 2013 09:30:20 -0800 (PST) rusi wrote: > On Mar 8, 9:50 am, rh wrote: > > > Choices are good. > > > > Having one choice is a mess. And look back at history and current > > events if you don't see that. > > > See http://www.perl.com/pub/1999/03/pm.html for how a real post-modern > hip language gives endless choice. Also called TIMTOWTDI. Or perl Didn't read that. Make django the defacto python webdev platform then. It won't make django better, maybe it will make more people use it because they will get a false sense that it must be good because it's defacto. I see that pycon is all about django, best of luck with it.