It isn't weak, it's flexible. It's that simple
And C isn't a weak OO language, it's flexible! You have the freedom
to build any OO framework you like with C. I'll leave you with a
quote from TheDamian's book (page 296):
Encapsulation is one of the cornerstones of object orientation,
but it's the area in which Perl's support for object-oriented
programming is the weakest. ..... Fortunately, Perl's flexibility
can be turned against itself to provide a means of building
objects that respect the encapsulation imposed by their classes.
And this node for a discussion of (and solution for in
followup) how Perl's simple inheritance breaks encapsulation of
the superclass. I justify my original comment on the basis that
if you need to jump through hoops to get some feature (in this case
encapsulation), support for that feature is 'weak'.
