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It's not all bad (Score:1)

by Ron Savage (5224)

Well, buying the book helps support the project, and despite the problems you list, if you've never looked at Catalyst (I haven't), it's certainly a powerful incentive to anyone labouring over the construction of web apps to think much more in terms of automating construction of code, and text-based CGI field definition. And it's definitely a good thing to have such documentation, free or otherwise.
I don't reject you criticism, but I'd also add:
(1) Some specifically used concepts, e.g. $c->detatch(), des
- Errata (Score:1)
  
  by mst (6121) on 2008.02.19 8:01 (#61153) Homepage Journal
  
  We're collecting errata on the new wiki [thttp] (which will move onto the main Catalyst site soon).
  
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