[Catalyst] New Catalyst slogan

[Pedro Melo]

for thanksgiving time:

Catalyst - The glu-glu-glue of web apps

yuck, I need more sleep...

On Jan 1, 2006, at 3:43 PM, Danijel Milicevic wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 23:17 -0500, Joe Landman wrote:
>> Catalyst - JATO Web Applications
>>
>> (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JATO or the item over at the Darwin
>> awards)
>
> Catalyst - you need to google to understand our slogans
>
> No, seriously though: we should keep it very very simple here, no  
> KISS,
> DRY, JATO, BOFH, ILTMUMOA (I like to make up my own acronyms) nor even
> MVC.
>
> We don't want only the expert webprogrammers - those will know how to
> evaluate the frameworks out there and decide to use Catalyst  
> anyway ;) -
> we want to attract the poor fellas who just wrote their own Template
> engine (like all of us did at some point) and fiddle with
> Apache::Dispatcher et cetera.
>
> We need something that describes Catalyst with very simple words.
>
> It's easy to use, but still powerful. It's flexible, but not
> complicated, etc.
>
> If we fill up the slogan with acronyms and insider stuff it will scare
> away users, as they will ask themselves the question: "if I can't
> understand the slogan, how am I supposed to understand the
> documentation?"
>
> Anyway, need to get sober :D
>
> Happy new year all,
> Danijel
>
>
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Pedro Melo
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