Nice, dws. You read Joseph Campbell, I presume?

The impression I get from the Java community is that it has no interest in becoming part of the open source community. The language's debut as a way to deliver user-safe code, keep the source obfuscated, and the back-end apps private just shouted privacy, security, proprietary, etc.

The Perl community seems, from my limited experience, to be more about being open, peer review, solving the problem, etc. Security concerns are more about preventing web users from hacking your database or doing the root dance on you.

The thinking of the communities is different, and so the evolution of the languages. I don't want Perl to have the same features, cool though they might be, as a proprietary, closed, secretive language. If nothing else, that will attract the wrong kind of thinking to us, tainting our kernel, so to speak.