[Phoenix-pm] OO Perl for idiots?

[Michael Friedman]

Today I was told that a couple of my co-workers said they "couldn't  
understand object oriented Perl." Emphasis on the *couldn't*. Bah.  
They aren't even trying. They learned Perl 3 many years ago and never  
bothered to update their coding styles.

Anyone have a cluebat I can borrow? I've already thrown the Panther  
book and Perl Best Practices at them and been completely rebuffed.  
I'm sure that they mainly don't want to even try, but I feel like I  
have to at least make an attempt to teach.

(These are the same people who refuse to use DBI and keep going with  
Sybase::DBlib. They also use modules so rarely that all their code is  
monolithic and duplicated in every script. And of course no one else  
can support it, because it's all hidden away outside of our CVS tree.)

Hrm, perhaps I should just give up.

Some days I really wish I had hiring & firing authority...

just ranting,
-- Mike


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