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People compared Perl to Lisp once, briefly, when it was one of the few dynamic languages, but they don't anymore. They should; Perl 5 compares quite well and P
by chromatic 17y ago
People compared Perl to Lisp once, briefly, when it was one of the few dynamic languages, but they don't anymore.
They should; Perl 5 compares quite well and Perl 6 fares even better (of the nine fundamental features of a Lisp, lacking only homoiconicity). See the book Higher-Order Perl, for example.
http://hop.perl.plover.com/ http://hop.perl.plover.com/