I think you're both talking past each other here. What I believe he's trying to emphasize may be that while with perl you've got this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Hello, world\n";

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In Java you're going to have to break out: 

public class HelloWorld {
  public static void main( String args[] ) {
    System.out.println( "Hello, world\n" );
  }
}

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Perl makes it dead simple to whip out call-this-call-this-call-this-boom-done style code, whereas to get the same thing in Java you've got to write a whole lot more overhead explicitly (i.e. you'd have a whole lot of static methods in some class rather than just a couple of subs hiding at the bottom of your quick, declarative Perl).

Update: Upon reflection, that's probably not what they mean by OO only. Maybe someone's thinking "pure OO", but then Java's not (c.f. int and other primitive, non-object types). Never mind me.

But maybe my last paragraph will be of some use to the OP.

Or not. Meh.

In reply to Re^5: A Perl vs. Java fight brews by Fletch
in thread A Perl vs. Java fight brews by Moron

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