Yeah, and it's what VFP did. I'm happy to find that Python has embraced that notion. And ease of configuration: the options to do it in a config file are straightforward (IOW: they are not xml-based -- typically they are Python dict's) and the programmatic alternatives are documented and easy.

>>>Speaking of which: in the last few days I had to set up a web service which would ship simple JSON messages back and forth. I looked at all the alternatives, and wrote the crux of the server in (exactly) 16 lines of Python (using CherryPy), including configuation settings.
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>That's what technology is supposed to do and it's normal in other fields. Imagine if the Da Vinci robot made surgery more difficult and complicated: only the worst surgeons would use it. Whereas in IT some people who are regarded as experts seem to take gleeful pride in convoluted and obfuscatory practices that they call modern.