[Catalyst] Gentlemen, a call to arms!

[John Napiorkowski]

-- Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:

> 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.