in reply to Why can't mod_perl+Mason just work?
- say "libapreq" and "win" in the same sentence and I break into hives -- I can't describe how much time we wasted on MP2 / AP2 / WinX before heading to Gentoo.
Just hearing "libapreq" makes me itch -- bad memories.
- Perl's strength is TIMTOWTDI. Perl's weakness is TIMTOWTDI. I mean, look at this node -- everyone has their own preferred way of writing web apps. While this diversity of opinion is healthy and good (a vigorous ecosystem of ideas), sometimes it is easier to 'sell' simple less diverse idea sets (a factory-farming monoculture approach) -- TIMTOWTDI may be why many more use PHP vs Perl today (this is a fact, yes?) and yet is also responsible for Perl's robustness and survival.