Having to do a lot of programming for my classes this quarter (in Perl) I read this over on O'Reilly Net: 

Is Perl's OO evil? A Pythoner's Perspective

I hope this is true - reading the perlboot and perltoot OO tutorials over the weekend hasn't filled me with a lot of confidence. But up to now the superior regular expression integration in Perl to process text still beats the awkward OO and datastructure handling.