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Re:Perl - the Detroit of scripting languages by veesahni on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @11:32AM (#6134442)
> The difference is that OO syntax sugar is implemented in core in Python and Ruby, while in Perl it is implemented in Perl directly

I see what you mean. However, that syntax sugar is what people are used to from other OO implementations. Lacking that sugar meant that I found myself regularly explaining the workings of blessed hashes.

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Re:Perl - the Detroit of scripting languages by Mithaldu on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @11:39AM (#6134512)
Yes, that is true. I only meant to correct your use of fake. In the past OO was a holy pain in the behind in Perl. However, nowadays that has changed considerably, and with Moo [1] we have a reliable, pure perl, fast, and easy-to-use sugar layer for OO. :)

[1] https://metacpan.org/module/Moo#SYNOPSIS

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Re:Perl - the Detroit of scripting languages by veesahni on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:26PM (#6134915)
I'll check out Moo :)
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