[aklug] Re: Perl 5 OOP

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Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Christopher Howard elucidated thus:
>> Perl 5 OOP sucks. Even with Moose.
>>
>> I guess I've been pampered lately, working mostly with C++ and Java.
>> Actually, Java has pretty cool feature which I just found out about
>> recently (being a Java n00b) called interfaces, where you can
>> actually define an interface (a sort of completely abstract class)
>> and just attach it to any class you want, independent of the
>> inheritance hierarchy.
>>
>> Anyway, right now I'm working with Perl because of a cool Perl
>> module, but I have to switch my code over to OOP, and even the Moose
>> interface seems awkward.
>>
>> I guess Perl 6 is supposed to improve that, but as Perl 6 doesn't
>> even seem to be in the Gentoo repositories yet, I'm probably not
>> going to play around with it.
>
> Back when I programmed in Perl, I avoided classes and OOP because they
> were so painful. Then I started using a language where
> classes/objects/OOP was there from the beginning (Python) and it was a
> beautiful, wonderful experience. In my first month or two with Python,
> I had written more classes than I had in my entire previous 8+ with
> Perl. I've never used Moose, so can't comment there, but I know that
> OOP in Perl is often referred to as a "bolt-on" vs. the "built in" that
> you'll see in Python, Java, etc.
>
> j
>

Ha ha... you can't criticize Perl without getting a plug from a Python
programmer. Maybe I'll give Python a try someday, if I am ever able to
get over my strictophobia. (Fear of enforced whitespace.)

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Christopher Howard
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Received on Wed Jan 6 15:51:51 2010