[ABE.pm] What's new in ABE Perldom?

[Ricardo SIGNES]

* Phil Lawrence <phil at five-lawrences.com> [2005-07-14T09:34:20]
> I went to Pycon this year...  was hoping to discover a good web app  
> framework.  Turned out that was a major topic for the conference.   
> Purportedly, all Python programmers go through a phase were they roll  
> their own web app framework.  :-)  Problem is, the frameworks are all  
> out there, hawking their own benefits, and there is ZERO clear  
> winner.  In fact, there are so many, there is basically no way to  
> know what to use.  Most of that community's conversation took the  
> form of "what shall we put out there as an answer to Ruby on Rails?"

Yeah, Python and Ruby both seem to have that problem -- too many or too
few or too large or too small solutions.  Perl often seems to be best at
finding the middle way.  I think Ruby has great potential, if they can
just get a good packaging system.  Maybe after JSAN is stable, someone
will get CRAN (or something) working.  The existing Ruby stuff is no
better than the Vaults of Parnassus (the awful Python attempt at a
CPAN).

I'm interested to see how the various attempts by Perlists to replicate
the hype of Ruby on Rails goes.  Catalyst seems to be doing well,
especially with the release of HTML::Prototype, which lets you easily
create smart "AJAX" forms using the Prototype JavaScript library.

> Oh, and to clarify, no new Perl form me for a while.  :-(

Did you read much more of Advanced Perl Programming 2?  I finished it,
and frankly I was somewhat disappointed.  I wrote a review of it (and a
few other recent reads) on our wiki:

	http://abe.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?BookLibrary

-- 
rjbs
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