Perl's OO support as bad as you make it sound. You don't have to use the base or parent pragmas to subclass; it's just a lot less tedious if you do, because the

Perl's OO support as bad as you make it sound. You don't have to use the base or parent pragmas to subclass; it's just a lot less tedious if you do, because there's no special syntax for it. (It's kind of amusing to hear "Perl has too much syntax" in this context.)