You didn't follow his question.
His professor was comparing Perl and OO-Perl - two different approaches of coding in Perl, not comparing Perl with some other languages. In this case, the "other things" you mentioned are most likely cannot be used as reasons.
In reply to Re^2: object oriented performance
by pg
in thread object oriented performance
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