Re: on Perl

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:47:47 +0000, Javier wrote:
>

But for system automation tasks in a Posix OS, when you want to go above
the level of a simple shell script and use complex data structures, Perl
is the only language that fills that gap, any other language is
oververbose (lacks conciseness).

>
Still some limitations in its data structures, though.

Such as?  (I'm not disagreeing -- every languages have "limitations" --
I'm just trying to find out what you mean by a limitation in Perl's data
structures.)

I see Perl 5.38 has
added an “experimental” class feature, but it doesn’t do multiple
inheritance or metaclasses.

Perl has had support for object-oriented programming (with multiple
inheritance) for many years -- too many for me to remember.

Also I’m not sure if classes are first-class
objects or not.

--
Ben.