"especially since OOP in perl is so raw and different from what I've encountered in other languages"

That's an interesting thing to say. It's certainly a lot rawer (is that a word?) than Java or PHP, or many other languages. But Python and Perl's OO systems are actually fairly close to each other:

• Methods are just functions which take an object as the first parameter.
• Lack of true private methods; just use the convention of an underscore prefix. (Though Python also has name mangling for double underscores.)
• Multiple inheritance and a default of depth-first mro.
• Instances have slots where the class can store arbitrary data, and which do not need to be declared beforehand. (Or at least, this is true in Perl if the instances are blessed hashrefs, as is very common.)

Moose provides a much more organised way of building classes in Perl if you're fed up of doing it "raw". IMHO, it's more powerful than the OO of pretty much any other mainstream programming language. Though it's just a layer over Perl's built-in crazy way of doing OO, so you can always dip into that as needed.

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