“In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.”

— Mark Jason Dominus

Interview with Mark Jason Dominus, April 7, 2005, January 17, 2011, The Perl Review, http://www.webcitation.org/5vo5J8kzO, January 17, 2011 http://www.theperlreview.com/Interviews/mjd-hop-20050407.html,

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