[VLM]

"That said, it's objects and pointers are a joke. At least Perl 5's are."

MOOOOOOOOOSE!

http://moose.iinteractive.com/en/

I agree, nobody uses the native stuff.

Its like claiming Perl DB support is a joke. Well, yeah, everyone uses the addon package.

[erikb]

That can be also said about Python now that they pretty much froze the stdlib. You are right, a language should be evaluated by it's general power, not just by it's stdlib. If you can easily install Perl packages every Perl package should be part of the equation.