> I knew that perl could do OO and I couldn't find > design patterns to go to the next step. You brought up a good point. I wish someone will write a Design Patterns book based on Perl...
I've read up on Ruby (to understand the growing interest around it). It looks Perlish, and it's an interesting alternative to Java. I think the biggest problem with Ruby and PHP is that none of them have the support that matches CPAN. In fact, I think CPAN is the biggest advantage for the Perl community. Java has a huge and growing community library. I must say that some of the Java-based works are really impressive.
