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diff --git a/docs/designdefense.rst b/docs/designdefense.rst index 19d4fc49f..bc4e6fcfd 100644 --- a/docs/designdefense.rst +++ b/docs/designdefense.rst @@ -1003,31 +1003,32 @@ the following: .. _microframeworks_smaller_hello_world: -Microframeworks Have Smaller Hello World Programs +Microframeworks have smaller Hello World programs ------------------------------------------------- -Self-described "microframeworks" exist: `Bottle <http://bottle.paws.de>`_ and -`Flask <http://flask.pocoo.org/>`_ are two that are becoming popular. `Bobo -<http://bobo.digicool.com/>`_ doesn't describe itself as a microframework, -but its intended userbase is much the same. Many others exist. We've -actually even (only as a teaching tool, not as any sort of official project) -`created one using Pyramid <http://bfg.repoze.org/videos#groundhog1>`_ (the -videos use BFG, a precursor to Pyramid, but the resulting code is `available -for Pyramid too <https://github.com/Pylons/groundhog>`_). Microframeworks are -small frameworks with one common feature: each allows its users to create a -fully functional application that lives in a single Python file. +Self-described "microframeworks" exist. `Bottle <http://bottle.paws.de>`_ and +`Flask <http://flask.pocoo.org/>`_ are two that are becoming popular. `Bobo +<http://bobo.digicool.com/>`_ doesn't describe itself as a microframework, but +its intended user base is much the same. Many others exist. We've even (only as +a teaching tool, not as any sort of official project) `created one using +Pyramid <http://bfg.repoze.org/videos#groundhog1>`_. The videos use BFG, a +precursor to Pyramid, but the resulting code is `available for Pyramid too +<https://github.com/Pylons/groundhog>`_). Microframeworks are small frameworks +with one common feature: each allows its users to create a fully functional +application that lives in a single Python file. Some developers and microframework authors point out that Pyramid's "hello -world" single-file program is longer (by about five lines) than the -equivalent program in their favorite microframework. Guilty as charged. - -This loss isn't for lack of trying. Pyramid is useful in the same -circumstance in which microframeworks claim dominance: single-file -applications. But Pyramid doesn't sacrifice its ability to credibly support -larger applications in order to achieve hello-world LoC parity with the -current crop of microframeworks. Pyramid's design instead tries to avoid -some common pitfalls associated with naive declarative configuration schemes. -The subsections which follow explain the rationale. +world" single-file program is longer (by about five lines) than the equivalent +program in their favorite microframework. Guilty as charged. + +This loss isn't for lack of trying. Pyramid is useful in the same circumstance +in which microframeworks claim dominance: single-file applications. But Pyramid +doesn't sacrifice its ability to credibly support larger applications in order +to achieve "hello world" lines of code parity with the current crop of +microframeworks. Pyramid's design instead tries to avoid some common pitfalls +associated with naive declarative configuration schemes. The subsections which +follow explain the rationale. + .. _you_dont_own_modulescope: |