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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: on Perl
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:04:57 +0100
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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.