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• RE: (Score:1)

  by Stevan (6065)

  You are certainly entitled to your opinion and I wont try to convince you to use Moose as I am sure your opinion is not knee-jerk, however I would like to just address a few points.

  To start with, Moose is still a work in progress and is in no way up to the level of sophistication as say a full blown language, so there will be some dark and ugly corners sometimes. Some of the things we are currently working on are both startup speed (we can't reduce the "bloat", but we can at least make it less noticable)
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    by scrottie (4167)

    Hi Steven,

    Thanks for taking time to read and comment on this. I'm often the voice of dissent (I hate POE, the various ORMs, Parrot, and lots of other stuff, too). So I'm always a bit surprised when I'm not dismissed as a crank =)

    Switch might be a source filter, but it's small and has no deps. As to whether Moose is as fragile as it, I can't honestly say. That was a bit knee jerk of me to say that. But to the extent that the analogy does hold (which might not be far), I'd like people to consider not rel
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by chromatic (983) on 2009.01.18 12:58 (#66939) Homepage Journal

      Again, most modules aren't used because they're the coolest thing ever, but instead because they're a dep of something else.

      When you write insightful things like this, I can never take you as a crank. Like you say, only when abstractions leak is this a problem.

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