The topic is about web frameworks, not how to build your own or what techniques are hip and trendy.
Re:Ask HN: Web Frameworks for Perl
by kingkongrevenge on Sunday November 23, 2008 @08:15PM
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> forget catalyst at least for a little while
Uh, why?
> using perl cgi and dbi, these are two the best modules written i think
No. CGI.pm is universally regarded as bloated.
Re:Ask HN: Web Frameworks for Perl
by dustineichler on Sunday November 23, 2008 @08:25PM
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Oh why, b/c obviously as someone mentioned before it has a steep learning curve. Who cares about the "bloat" or whatever you think is wrong with it. my $p = CGI->new is elegantly simple whatever method you're calling. it's opinion dur!
http://strawberryperl.com/ http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Moose-0.61/lib/Moose.pm
forget catalyst at least for a little while. perl moose makes oop perl a little bit easier, however it should go without saying; understand perl oop first.
http://www.p3rl.org/OOP
if you're using perl cgi and dbi, these are two the best modules written i think. lots to learn in there, keep looking.