Should I learn Perl 5 OO or Moose first? [closed]

Answer 1

Learn OOP that comes with Perl before Moose. This will make it a lot easier for you in the long run.

Answer 2

This was going to be a comment on Schwern's post, but it grew.

I would say that moose is slower than "normal" Perl OO, but firstly this is not terribly important for most code (premature optimisation) and secondly if you do __PACKAGE__->make_immutable then a lot of the runtime overhead is removed anyway.

I'm with the "learn Moose first" gang. I like to remain willfully ignorant of Perl OO details for the kind of code that I write (data management and simple apps), and so I tend to use Moose for everything, even stuff I would have done procedurally in the past, because it makes a lot of the mechanics of the programming much easier

Answer 3

Most of the Perl world is not Moose, so you'll still need the basics to use all of the other modules.

Answer 4

Get comfortable with the basics first. Unless you've done a lot of OO JavaScript, OO Perl is going to seem a little strange, and some of the things that Moose or any other library does may seem wierd.

Answer 5

Lots of useful answers above. The only thing I can add is that the Moose manual is now available to buy as a book or PDF. If you're learning or just using Moose, its a useful reference guide and it's printed in pretty typography.

• Moose Manual - printed book

Disclosure: we created the book (Mr Monkey), though we didn't write it (that was Dave Rolsky and Stevan Little).