I'm just a bit sad that "modern Perl" is OO Perl, and not more in the style of Higher-Order Perl.
There's an element of practicality. Perl doesn't force the use of any specific paradigm, but as it's not a pure functional language, the dominant paradigm for maintainable, large applications tends to be OO.
There's an element of practicality. Perl doesn't force the use of any specific paradigm, but as it's not a pure functional language, the dominant paradigm for maintainable, large applications tends to be OO.