On 22 November 2003, Todd Grimason said:
> I've some JSP experience and I don't really see the similarity at
> all. JSP is essentially the antithesis, or perhaps the reason for
> Quixote's approach. It's more or less PHP/ASP in Java.
>
> IOW, they're night and day in approach - not even in the same
> ballpark. No competition I can see.

Careful not to confuse "PTL" with "Quixote".  Obviously they're closely
related, and personally I really really like PTL.  But there are
definitely people out there using Quixote without PTL.  The real heart
of Quixote is the publishing algorithm, ie. the code that turns URLs
into Python callables (and calls them).

Interestingly, our first crack at Quixote (June 2000?) used yet another
embed-a-real-programming-language-in-HTML syntax, because Andrew and I
failed to think sufficiently outside the box.  Luckily we hired Neil
around then; he quickly saw the error of our ways, and implemented what
we now know as PTL.  I think it took him somewhere between 30 seconds
and 5 minutes to convince us that putting HTML in the code is faaaar
preferable, at least when the programmers are the people writing the
HTML.

        Greg
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