Agreed. I thought "Paradigm: Yes" was hilarious, but the Perl row has a few errors.

"Function Overloading" should be "N/A" for a language without subroutine signatures. Any Perl function can take any combination of arguments and decide what to do with them. This is used to create de facto function overloading.

"Method Pointers: No" is ridiculous. Perl has subroutine references, which includes methods. You can even use a method name string as a method reference if you need to.

I think if you read this in the context of Hixie being a well-know internet person, standards geek and known Perl hacker you can see that it is supposed to be humorous (and a little self-depracating being he has to maintain his own Perl scripts).

Don't take it too seriously and you will see there is a more than a grain of truth in what he says.

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