As for Moose it seems to be making object creating and handling much easier, but what troubles me is that it does not seem to be following a c++/java style of handling objects which programers coming from such languages might be used to, i ll play around with it though

Not following the C++/Java way is a good thing IMO. Moose strives to be more Perl-ish and is derived largely from the Perl 6 spec (along with contributions from other languages such as Ruby, OCaml, Java, etc). Here is what your code looks like in Moose

package Farm;
use Moose;

has 'farmName' => (
    is      => 'rw',
    isa     => 'Str',   
    default => sub { "" },
);

has 'farmBirds' => (
    is      => 'rw',
    isa     => 'ArrayRef',   
    default => sub { [] },
);

has 'farmMammals' => (
    is      => 'rw',
    isa     => 'ArrayRef',   
    default => sub { [] },
);

1;
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When you call Farm->new everything will be initialized for you and so you can start writing code with thart object right away, like so:

my $farm = Farm->new;
$farm->farmName('Old Mac Donald');
push @{$farm->farmBirds} => 'Chicken';
push @{$farm->farmMammals} => 'Pig';
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You can even initialize the attributes on your own from the constructor, like so:

my $farm = Farm->new(
    farmName    => 'Old Mac Donald',
    farmBirds   => [ 'Chicken', 'Duck' ],
    farmMammals => [ 'Pig', 'Cow' ],    
);
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The core goal of Moose is to take the tedium out of Perl 5 OOP (which you actually commented on in your original post) by making Perl OOP less about coding the mechanisms of OOP and more about creating the objects and modeling your problem domain.

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