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My old CTO would have argued with you that Perl was not a mere scripting language* and that our shop's style of coding was indeed object oriented. The other pro

My old CTO would have argued with you that Perl was not a mere scripting language* and that our shop's style of coding was indeed object oriented. The other problem we ran into was that the programmers who loved other languages were very religious about it. In fact I use to visualize that each programmer worshipped the specific animal that shown on the O'Reilly book cover: And I'm still haunted in my dreams by that camel. Of course the best programmers in my experience like to work in multiple languages -- but again there aren't that many of them... * This was a few years ago so this was a reference to PHP and Cold Fusion which tended to get mashed into HTML. Python was around then, but a very new thing -- and this was before the age of Ruby on Rails.

jerf 14y ago
"that our shop's style of coding was indeed object oriented" All of the other languages I mentioned are roughly as OO as Perl. (You sometimes have to go looking for it, and Perl's probably ultimately the weakest at the core, but it's still there and mostly strong enough it doesn't matter.)
- michaelpinto 14y ago
  Well keep in mind that the above quote was made about twelve years ago. The problem that we had was that the people who would take up languages like PHP were what we'd call "script kiddies" who would copy and paste code and call themselves coders. Keep in mind that this was right before the bubble burst so there was a ton of BS going around too. Of course since that era I've seen programming languages mature -- and I've also seen the industry mature as well. Although i still see a great deal of BS... : D