Okay, well as I suspected, we have a terminological difference going here. You talk about "using an MVC", but I think of MVC as a design pattern, not a category of software. Further, it's somewhat confusing to talk about an MVC as opposed to Mason, because Mason can -- as you admit here -- be used to implement the MVC pattern. And that's pretty clearly the recommended usage in the Mason world: Also, as I suspected, when you talk about "a true MVC framework", you're talking about the current fad for what I would call web application frameworks, all of which (to my knowledge) use some sort of object-relational mapper, (e.g. Class::DBI). The key feature of these things seems to be that they sacrifice database design for the sake of object design, which while this may speed up development it strikes me as being exactly backwards as far as performance is concerned.

And so we come to your closing shot: "pick up a true MVC framework, you might come to view Mason as less developed -- I have." May I inquire, in what way you find it "less developed"?

In reply to Re^4: Mason & DBI driving me nuts by doom
in thread Mason & DBI driving me nuts by jfroebe

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