NAME
    Bubblegum - Opinionated Modern Perl Development Framework

VERSION
    version 0.04

  Introduction
    Bubblegum makes essential core features and common functionality readily
    available via automation (autoloading, autoboxing, autodying, etc). It
    promotes modern Perl best practices by automatically enabling a standard
    configuration (utf8::all, strict, warnings, features, etc) and by
    extending core functionality with Bubblegum::Wrapper extensions.
    Bubblegum is an opinionated object-oriented development framework, the
    core is designed to leverage as much of the Perl core, 5.10+, as
    possible and uses Moo to provide a minimalistic object system
    (compatible with Moose). This framework is modeled using object-roles
    for a higher-level of abstraction and consistency.

  Features
        * 5.10.0 required
        * core functions throw exceptions
        * autoboxing with more consistent method names
        * file and path utilities
        * date and time utilities
        * encoding/decoding utilities
        * default utf-8 encoding for all IO operations
        * modern method order resolution
        * modern minimalistic object system
        * strict syntax checking
        * global utility object

    Please take a look at the Bubblegum overview Bubblegum::Overview for
    more information on it's features and usages.

  Rationale
    The TIMTOWTDI (there is more than one way to do it) motto has been a
    gift and a curse. The Perl language (and community) has been centered
    around this concept for quite some time, in that the language "doesn't
    try to tell the programmer how to program" which makes it easy to write
    concise and powerful statements but which also makes it easy to write
    extremely messy and incoherent software (with great power comes great
    responsibility). Another downside is that as the number of decisions a
    programmer has to make increases, their productivity decreases. Enforced
    consistency is a path many other programming languages and frameworks
    have adopted to great effect, so Bubblegum is one approach towards that
    end in Perl.

AUTHOR
    Al Newkirk <anewkirk@ana.io>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Al Newkirk.

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.