A Rubyist walks into an Erlang

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-July/060103.html
Follow the thread with "next message" to learn of a man's drive to make Erlang RUBY ELEGANT.

and then the aftermath:
http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-July/060229.html

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Perl version would look like:
Perl:   map (sub {my ( $x ) = @_;  $x * 2 }) qw(1 2 3 4 5)

Because Perl functions have no argument lists, so binding requires explicit pattern-matching.