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Perl was the first dynamic language I learned after taking most of my college courses in Java. It was an eye opening experience in many regards: ease of standing up a web app via CGI.pm, dynamic dispatch tables using anonymous sub procedures, an OOP system based on "blessed" data structures, access to the symbol table, etc. In the last couple of years I've gotten into learning Common Lisp and it's surprising how many similarities there appear to be. I'm actually kind of surprised that given Perl's ability to change packages in an ad-hoc fashion that some type of live programming system was never developed for it.