[ Thanks to S.Ramaswamy for this link.
]
“This document is about Zope and object orientation. If you’re a
nonprogrammer or a programmer who has only a passing understanding
of object orientation, this document is for you….”
“Zope is a fantastic environment on which to base almost any
web effort. It is superior, in my (admittedly biased) opinion, to
any other comparable product. It is unique. It’s a killer app. It
crushes most competing commercial applications in scope and depth.
It’s beautiful. It is a mechanism by which you can put an
application on the web quickly and it is a tool with which you can
allow folks to more granularly and securely manage Web content.
It’s open source and it’s free. It’s scalable. It’s got a wide
audience. It’s a tough product to beat on many levels.”
“But it has flaws. One of its particularly onerous flaws is that
it currently lacks clear documentation suitable for consumption by
a programmer whose best efforts have been executed in Perl or
VBScript or other primarily “procedural” programming languages.
Digital Creations has acknowledged that documentation for the
product trails behind its development effort by a considerable
stretch, and it is working towards marshalling adequate resources
to properly remedy the “documentation problem”. Some clever folks
have banded together to form the Zope Documentation Project which
has as its goal the furthering of friendlier documentation for Zope
as well.”