There is a certain elegance to bare lists, as any lisp programmer will probably agree with. It enables the programmer to build their own abstractions as they go

There is a certain elegance to bare lists, as any lisp programmer will probably agree with. It enables the programmer to build their own abstractions as they go. That is also true for the overly simple object model of Perl 5, it is more like an OOP construction kit, which enables things like Moose which has for almost 15 years provided Perl 5 with a very flexible object model. It would be very interesting to know if anybody knows of similar systems for other languages? Large OO codebases can be downright nasty to navigate and while I have never had the opportunity to use something like Moose for large scale projects I imagine that's where it would shine.