2) OO perl is no slower (of any significance) than functional perl
Are you sure? I read on 'Object Oriented Perl' By Dr. Conway that OO Perl is actually slower ( to 50% sometimes ) than normal Perl. Probably because Perl wasn't designed to be OO language.
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