but watching and waiting for Perl6 and getting the OO model cleaned up Have a look at http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose

but watching and waiting for Perl6 and getting the OO model cleaned up Have a look at http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose and http://moose.perl.org http://moose.perl.org as well as the MooseX::* namespace on CPAN. It's Perl 5 OO with a Meta Object Protocol, lots of extensions, and compatibility with pure Perl 5 OO. Do you think it will look good on your resume, improve your skill set, or help you think in new and better ways? For me it does. I'm a full-time Perl 5 developer and I have to learn and read up on newer technologies all the time. Even if the CPAN already provides me with what I mostly need, I'll still have to integrate it into the customers infrastructure. And for that I have to understand it. For all practical purposes the language is dead CPAN disagrees.