CPAN is afaik the gold standard to make that kind of thing bearable. It isn't really a language thing.
(Since everything seems to go to Moose (a backport of most of the Perl 6 OO model) in the Perl world, there might be an impedance mismatch in a few years with old style libraries and new?)
Yeah, but I was thinking more brain mismatch. On the other hand, most CPAN libraries aren't so large that they use APIs which needs to be overridden; I was probably wrong. (Anyway, it was irrelevant to my point. :-)
(Since everything seems to go to Moose (a backport of most of the Perl 6 OO model) in the Perl world, there might be an impedance mismatch in a few years with old style libraries and new?)