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by raiph 3594 days ago
> Perl is absolutely terrible for basic oo.

To clarify for readers who might not know...

* Perl 5 (the language this comment appears to focus on) and Perl 6 (the language the OP is about) are different languages in the same family, like Common Lisp and Clojure.

* Perl 6 OO is syntactically and semantically elegant. "In using Perl 6, one of the things that constantly floors me is how elegant objects are..." [1].

* Perl 6, which has this elegant OO built in, outperforms Perl 5 + Moose for some things and trails it for others.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/perl6/comments/4ud7vc/a_python_guy_...