[Catalyst] BBC's "Perl on Rails" nuttiness

Jonathan Rockway jon at jrock.us
Sat Dec 1 19:29:29 GMT 2007


On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 02:50 +0900, Matt Rosin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Low ball coming in. There's a story on slashdot.org today about how
> the BBC has reinvented catalyst calling it "Perl on Rails" which is
> actually being used in the BBC now they say. I'm mentioning it here
> since it comes at a bad time what with the catalystframework domain
> being locked up and the BBC person seems to be giving wierd reasons
> for saying Catalyst or other perl MVC frameworks were unusable, see
> below.

I think that the 5.6 limitation was the main reason for not using
Catalyst.  

Also, rails-style "MVC" really has nothing to do with Catalyst-style
MVC.  TMTOWTDI.

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway
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