I am with brother moritz, i.e. the two step approach. Once you have mastered the OO concepts it can serve you well in any programming environment. OO is a philosophy and program languages have various degrees of supporting it, ranging from not-at-all to fully OO.

You can for example even write OO programs in COBOL (with a lot of discipline I admit) but other language have specific constructs which make it a lot easier. I liked Object-Oriented Design as a general book on OO. As a warning: OO can have a steep learning curve. The more experience you have with non-OO languages the longer it usually takes to write decent OO programs.

Specific for Perl you can look in the Perl Cookbook, chapter 13. “Classes, Objects, and Ties”, Programming Perl, Chapter 5 “Packages, Modules, and Object Classes” and Advanced Perl Programming, chapter 7. “Object-Oriented Programming” + chapter 8. “Object Orientation: The Next Few Steps”. There is lots of stuff in the Monastery and on Internet in general, just Google for it. The suggestions above are also well worth considering.

HTH

In reply to Re: looking towards learning OOP by dHarry
in thread looking towards learning OOP by spx2

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