You misunderstood me: I mentioned closures and objects as something perl had, which were also one of the selling points of ruby and python at the time, which wo

You misunderstood me: I mentioned closures and objects as something perl had, which were also one of the selling points of ruby and python at the time, which would be considered competitors to perl. The example was meant to show the "minimum" needed to be an interesting scripting language. Edit: I love perl. I love perl6. I hope languages get inspired from it.