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		wazoox on May 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I Use Perl: Reliability Actually, though I tried C++ starting in 1993, Java from 1996, I didn't really grok OO until I tried it in Perl a few years later. Because it shows its guts out, without any sugar coating, I understood what it was about.

gatlin on May 29, 2012 [–]

A favorite koan of mine: objects are a poor man's closures, but closures are a poor man's objects.

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