Larry Wall : State of the Onion 2001
(mp3)
Claes Jacobsson : JavaScript.pm
"gives you the power of embedded JavaScript in your applications. You can write your subs, classes etc in perl and bind them to the JavaScript engine. Variables are converted between the language automaticlly and you don't have to worry about that. ... This is not a JavaScript runtime written in perl, it's simply an interface to libjs from the mozilla crew."