The Perl elite spent too many years futzing over whether to include a MOP (meta object protocol) in the stdlib and, if so, which one. Clunky Catalyst, with its

The Perl elite spent too many years futzing over whether to include a MOP (meta object protocol) in the stdlib and, if so, which one. Clunky Catalyst, with its weird subroutine signatures, was also no match for Rails, PHP and Django.