>>15Actually no. Perl provides some nice syntatic sugar for regexps and hash tables, but that is all. Regarding garbage collection: good C program allocates all the memory it needs at startup, so its memory performance is very predictable. Dynamic typing does help, but it is a syntatic sugar too. The expressiveness gap between Perl and C is just too small. The next big leap in computing would be direct brain-computer interface and neural networks recognizing want programmer needs from broader pattern, that could actually speedup programming.