[Twisted-Python] Rails? Twisted versus J2EE? Metaprogramming as self-modifying code?
John Benson
jsbenson at bensonsystems.com
Wed Dec 14 01:40:47 MST 2005
Hi, I did some Python and Twisted two years ago got distracted, picked
up some IBM WebSphere certifications, got turned off by the verbosity of
J2EE and suspected that there was a cleaner way to do it.
I just got through Bruce Tate's O'Reilly book /Beyond Java/ and am
hearing the siren call of Ruby on Rails. Tate is unwilling to champion
Ruby over Python or vice versa, but waxes poetic about Rails.
I know there is a Rail-like Python project (Subway?) but I'd like to
know if there is a Rail-alike that works with Twisted.
Also, I'd like to hear about the advantages of J2EE over Twisted (if
any), especially in the scalability and MQ Series connectivity areas.
The little project I did with Python and Twisted was a joy and would
easily have taken 4X the time and effort in a compiled environment. Now
that I've seen what J2EE tries to do, I'm curious to see how Twisted
stacks up against the J2EE specialties.
Comparisons between Python and Ruby will also interest, especially
regarding ease of metaprogramming since this seems to be the arena in
which the Next Big Thing will hit software practice with aspect-oriented
programming, dependency injection and mixins. Kind of like when COBOL
programmers had to learn pointers to deal with C, or when C programmers
had to learn about objects to deal with C++ and/or Java.
By the way, I remember the campaign to stamp out self-modifying code
back during the structured programming wars of the 1970's. Although the
benefits of metaprogramming are attractive, isn't metaprogramming just
self-modifying code at the object level? If so, should we just say no?
If not, what has changed to make it reasonable now?
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