It may sound ridiculous because Perl has OO features, it has classes, methods, inheritance and all that fancy OO stuff ... but it has a lack of OO programmers and OO designers.

I guess there are several ways to look at this...

Perl programmers take the lazy way of not learning or implementing OO since they are not being forced to, and so they are not "OO programmers". Or Perl programmers do understand OO, but choose not to use it as often and so there appears to be less "OO programmers" around.

Any programmer worth their salt will investigate different tools, like OO, and use them as appropriate (as apposed to being forced ala Java). For all others, it is not worth the effort to push/pull them -- OOP is not a magic bullet and will add nothing to them.

bluto

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