If mod_perl had been designed more like mod_php Perl's web frameworks (Catalyst, HTML::Mason, Dancer & Mojolicious) might have had a chance of competing with PH

If mod_perl had been designed more like mod_php Perl's web frameworks (Catalyst, HTML::Mason, Dancer & Mojolicious) might have had a chance of competing with PHP and Rails. PSGI could have helped Perl compete with Ruby/Rails but PSGI came too late.