my immature thoughts on perl

[coreyh@free.fr]

Hello list,

I am not that familiar with perl (though I like it), but I found it 
maybe have two flaws as follows.

1. doesn't have an interactive shell.
2. the block statement (like lambda) is ugly.

For instance, in ruby (irb) this is quite smooth:

irb(main):001:0> [1,2,3,4].map{|x|x+1}.reduce{|x,y|x+y}
=> 14


And in scala (shell):

scala> List(1,2,3,4).map{ _+1 }.reduce{_+_}
res1: Int = 14

In perl there is no interactive shell, and the block statement seems 
strange:

$ perl -le '@x=(1,2,3,4); $sum+=$_ for( map {$_+1} @x );print $sum'
14


How do you think of it?

Thanks
Corey