"If we can get something like this going at the highest levels"

"Perl inteligensia lock themselves in a dark, smokey room - not being allowed to leave until they generate a minimalfunperlish "spec" for OOP Perl."

Again have you run this past whoever it is you consider "inteligensia", or the perl core team?

"as simple as possible, but no simpler"

if something is as simple as it is possible to be, how could it be simpler?