On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:23 PM, David Cantrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Alex Francis wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Lyle<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Unless there is a page I'm missing, the course content list isn't very > >> detailed. Does it cover things like CGI::Application? > > I don't think it does. > > Nor should it. A university course shouldn't cover every little-used > module on the CPAN! > > > I suggested covering frameworks and a bit of Perl 6. > > Problem with that is that perl 6 doesn't exist yet (and so students
There's enough to be getting on with, in fairness. > can't go and play with it; but it would perhaps be useful to discuss why > some of the new stuff in perl 6 is useful - and why other bits of it are > rather silly). And - which frameworks? Either you merely skate over Catalyst. Next question? Seriously though, I don't think there are *that* many frameworks out there that satisfy criteria of a) maturity / more than a year's development b) active, frequent commits c) friendly, useful mailing list d) integration with number of other databases (RDBMS, LDAP, file, etc) Even just a discussion of the relevance of those four (and other?) criteria is probably useful. > > the surface of a few of them, doing nothing except to tell the students > that frameworks W, X, Y and Z are available, or you look at one in some, > but not enough, detail. > > -- > David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world > > Perl: the only language that makes Welsh look acceptable > _______________________________________________ > BristolBathPM mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
