[dragonwriter]

> You admit that you're a Ruby developer, so you must see that this is slightly blinkered. Influential on what?

On frameworks in other languages, both in terms of design/motivation and expectations; one indication of this is the frequency of phrases like "sinatra style framework" or "rails style framework" to either (a) describe an existing web framework for a different langauge, or (b) describe what someone is looking for in a web framework in a different language.

I'm not sure I've ever seen the same thing with Django, web.py, or Tornado. I've seen it with Flask, but its been basically a subset of the times I've seen it with Sinatra (that is, I've seen things like "Sinatra-style framework" and "Flask/Sinatra-style framework", but not "Flask-style framework" on its own.)

[Herald_MJ]

I've heard "Rails style" about as frequently as I've heard "Django style".

I've never heard "Sinatra style". In fact, when someone first mentioned Sinatra to me, they explained it as "like a web.py style microframework, for Ruby". This was a conversation between two Python developers though, so it makes sense we'd be more familiar with the Python ecosystem. But that's as much a Python-centric bias as your original comment seemed Ruby-centric bias.

Incidentally, I don't think Flask has all that much in common with Sinatra.