[Chicago-talk] [Fwd: [Catalyst] Gentlemen, a call to arms!]

[Jonathan Rockway]

I'm forwarding this on with the disclaimer "-1 Flamebait".

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Catalyst] Gentlemen, a call to arms!
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:34:49 +0100
From: Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk>
Reply-To: The elegant MVC web framework <catalyst at lists.rawmode.org>
To: The elegant MVC web framework <catalyst at lists.rawmode.org>,
dbix-class at lists.rawmode.org, 	"London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers"
<london.pm at london.pm.org>,	maypole-users at lists.sourceforge.net, 	RDBO
<rose-db-object at lists.sourceforge.net>,	"Classdbi at Lists.
Digitalcraftsmen. Net"	<classdbi at lists.digitalcraftsmen.net>

http://www.plat-forms.org/faq.htm

They're having a platform war. We're forever left out of the ruby vs.
python
games, the "enterprise" people ignore us (though really, I'm not sure I
mind
that :) but ...

"We have been considering Perl as one of the platforms to be admitted to
the
contest. So far, we have decided against it because we believe that too few
professionals use it professionally for us to hope to get enough
requests for
admittance for the Perl platform.

If you are a team that would like to participate and would like to use
Perl,
please contact prechelt at inf.fu-berlin.de (Lutz Prechelt)."

This is a bit of a shotgun e-mail. Several list admins are probably
going to
attempt to track me down and shoot me in the head. I don't care.

Our community has repeatedly failed to market it's way out of a paper bag,
I've even helped contribute to this with my eminently forgettable London
Web
Frameworks Night talk. But this is about producing working code. *That* we
know we can do.

Stand up and be counted. It's gotta be good for a laugh if nothing else.

*dons asbestos suit, hides under desk*

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