their behavior is then easier to predict. Time will tell whether I am right or
not (UPDATE: so far so good).
-=item *
-
-It is important to note that we currently have no simple way of combining
-multiple extended versions of Moose (see L<EXTENDING AND EMBEDDING MOOSE> above),
-and that in many cases they will conflict with one another. We are working on
-developing a way around this issue, but in the meantime, you have been warned.
-
-=back
-
-=head1 JUSTIFICATION
-
-In case you are still asking yourself "Why do I need this?", then this
-section is for you. This used to be part of the main DESCRIPTION, but
-I think Moose no longer actually needs justification, so it is included
-(read: buried) here for those who are still not convinced.
-
-=over 4
-
-=item Another object system!?!?
-
-Yes, I know there has been an explosion recently of new ways to
-build objects in Perl 5, most of them based on inside-out objects
-and other such things. Moose is different because it is not a new
-object system for Perl 5, but instead an extension of the existing
-object system.
-
-Moose is built on top of L<Class::MOP>, which is a metaclass system
-for Perl 5. This means that Moose not only makes building normal
-Perl 5 objects better, but it also provides the power of metaclass
-programming.
-
-=item Is this for real? Or is this just an experiment?
-
-Moose is I<based> on the prototypes and experiments I did for the Perl 6
-meta-model. However, Moose is B<NOT> an experiment/prototype; it is for B<real>.
-
-=item Is this ready for use in production?
-
-Yes, I believe that it is.
-
-Moose has been used successfully in production environemnts by several people
-and companies (including the one I work for). There are Moose applications
-which have been in production with little or no issue now for well over two years.
-I consider it highly stable and we are commited to keeping it stable.
-
-Of course, in the end, you need to make this call yourself. If you have
-any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me, or even the list
-or just stop by #moose and ask away.
-
-=item Is Moose just Perl 6 in Perl 5?
-
-No. While Moose is very much inspired by Perl 6, it is not itself Perl 6.
-Instead, it is an OO system for Perl 5. I built Moose because I was tired of
-writing the same old boring Perl 5 OO code, and drooling over Perl 6 OO. So
-instead of switching to Ruby, I wrote Moose :)
-
-=item Wait, I<post> modern, I thought it was just I<modern>?
-
-So I was reading Larry Wall's talk from the 1999 Linux World entitled
-"Perl, the first postmodern computer language" in which he talks about how
-he picked the features for Perl because he thought they were cool and he
-threw out the ones that he thought sucked. This got me thinking about how
-we have done the same thing in Moose. For Moose, we have "borrowed" features
-from Perl 6, CLOS (LISP), Smalltalk, Java, BETA, OCaml, Ruby and more, and
-the bits we didn't like (cause they sucked) we tossed aside. So for this
-reason (and a few others) I have re-dubbed Moose a I<postmodern> object system.
-
-Nuff Said.
-
=back
=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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