[tpm] Perl as a career

[Martin at Cleaver.org]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:36 AM, <arocker at vex.net> wrote:

> >
> > You might want to look at the various View and Controller plugins
> for Catalyst on CPAN.  There are hundreds.
> >
> > There are tons of JS frameworks.
>
> These two statements identify a paradoxical situation. If there are
> too many options, it becomes easier to roll one's own, rather than
> wade through the numerous possible candidates assessing their suitability
> and reliability.


And I'd said:
>> Perl seems to have a more than N ways of doing it, where it = framework,
and N is a sane, justifiable number.

If Perl is to compete I believe it would serve itself by focusing the
energies of its users on a smaller set.

While many criticize PHP for having too many functions built into the PHP
core, that's a less complex issue than too many frameworks.

If one thing would get my attention for Perl 6 it would be a "fewer ways to
do something" mentality. Convention over Configuration and all that.

Martin.
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