My history is the opposite. I failed to understand objects in C++, then learned Java, and then learned Perl. Playing with the mechanism helped me understand OO.

My history is the opposite. I failed to understand objects in C++, then learned Java, and then learned Perl. Playing with the mechanism helped me understand OO. (Exploring Smalltalk after that helped.) After learning Moose a couple of years ago, I don't miss the Perl 5 mechanism at all.