On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:26 -0600, Jonathan Rockway wrote: > BTW, I like the term "failed experiment". Isn't everything a "failed > experiment"? Should we remove CGI.pm from the CPAN because CGI.pm-style > code is a "failed experiment" in writing web applications?
Academic thinking again. CGI is highly successful. It's being used on thousands of production applications. However, there are several large frameworks, which appear to have gotten started and then just stopped (I'm guessing that the author got a job ;-). I doubt those modules have ever seen much use. I think you can count something as successful if it gets to 1.0 or if the author says it works (i.e. if in v 0.17 he says that the next version will be 1.0 but never actually does the final release then we can count that as a success). -- --gh
