Re^2: Is Perl Truly an Object Oriented Language?

Thank you for your wonderfully spirited response.

I plan to print this out and keep it with me the next time I'm talking with someone and they tilt their head, furrow their brow and say, "But is it truly OO?", at which point I will smile broadly and leap into a fascinating but mostly pointless discussion of What OO Means Anyway.

I won't end up working there (yes, I admit, I did picture an HR droid with their Arts degree on the wall), but I'll know I had the Right Answer To An Ugly Question.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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Re^3: Is Perl Truly an Object Oriented Language? by dimar (Curate) on Dec 02, 2004 at 21:32 UTC
Wait a minute ... are you saying someone asked you these very same questions in a job interview??	[reply]
Re^4: Is Perl Truly an Object Oriented Language? by talexb (Chancellor) on Dec 03, 2004 at 21:32 UTC
Nah .. just projecting. I find that the people who are so intent on OO are often the ones who have no idea what it means. They do know that it's a cool buzzword, hence favoured by HR drones, marketing droids, shiny project leaders and so forth. I'm perfectly happy to split hairs with someone in a logical argument, but when I hear a body in a $1000 suit asking about OO, it's probably because they read about it in a brochure somewhere and they're trying to make an impression -- much as well educated Europeans a hundred years ago would drop English, French, Italian, Latin and Greek into conversation to casually convey the impression that they'd been 'properly' schooled. My view of the world is more skewed towards a meritocracy, as misguided as that may seem. And, yes, Don Quixote is one of my heros. Alex / talexb / Toronto "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds	[reply]