Others that he didn't even mention: * CakePHP (it's better than CI, Symfony and Zend) * Catalyst * ErlyWeb I think it's particularly surprising that he left

Others that he didn't even mention: * CakePHP (it's better than CI, Symfony and Zend) * Catalyst * ErlyWeb I think it's particularly surprising that he left Catalyst out with the language's huge mindshare and the productive nature of the framework. Drupal simply isn't in the same class as these. It's a CMF, not an application framework.