This whole argument is based on two false assumptions. One, that shitty broken web frameworks like cakephp and zend are "well known, well documented project wi

This whole argument is based on two false assumptions. One, that shitty broken web frameworks like cakephp and zend are "well known, well documented project with thousands of eyes fixing bugs and adding features" rather than the horrible messes they actually are. And two, that web apps are the only software to share any common aspects. Every lame VB+Access app I ever saw had more in common than two randomly chosen web apps. Yet nobody needed a "framework" to enforce worst practices and ensure that everything was done inefficiently and unmaintainably.