I've been working on a PERL framework that works similarly to GUI
widgets but for text-based applications. To make a keyboard listener, I
had to hack up the OO by writing my own funky overloaded constructors
and bypassing that accursed bless function.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Chrisman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 8:14 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [RLUG] Addicted to Lua

Sebastian Smith wrote:

>I really only use two languages: C++, and PERL.  It's rare, but I will
use
>C, and Java as well (I guess you can count BASH too).  I use C++ for
>larger projects, and PERL for quick and dirty solutions (I usually
relearn
>PERL everytime I use it).  PERL usually causes a little hair pulling
when
>it comes to object oriented programming, which usually ends up as a
messy
>hackish program that simulates OO.  This is without a doubt due to my
lack
>of experience with the language.
>
>  
>
Heh.. I don't think your issues with perl OO are due to a lack of 
experience with it.
Perl's OO is a kludge at best... not surprising, as it was hacked on 
during perl5. 


>On a side note I'm interested in learning Python and Ruby.
>
>- Sebastian
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