Thanks for the clarification. I read the title as "On the obsessive statelessness of Perl", and thought, in order, "cool, an article on HN about Perl!" and the

Thanks for the clarification. I read the title as "On the obsessive statelessness of Perl", and thought, in order, "cool, an article on HN about Perl!" and then "wait, Perl is about as far from obsessively stateless as possible."