> This immediately brought to mind what I think is wrong (or I guess some > people would say is right) with CPAN in regards to our discussion here. > We want to make the Perl community bigger and better and that means we > need to bring programmers to Perl, right? Well CPAN is one of the great > things about the language and community but for the novice or new to > Perl user it really lacks in some important areas. New programmers or > programmers that have moved from another language first find it hard to > search for exactly what they want and then when they do find it there > are a myriad of modules that do more or less the same thing. There is > no real explanation to new Perl users of these de facto standards that > they should use in most cases and I think this drives newbies away from > Perl.
Bingo! That's it. And I said that there is no de facto standard, because there isn't one generally accepted. The Catalyst users have an opinion, the CGI::App might have another one, the Mason users who knows... maybe another one, and so on. So the newbie might finally start learning Python or Ruby. Teddy _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
