Perl and Ruby want to be suitable replacements for Scheme, not the other way around. The authors of these languages were well aware of Lisp and many features an

Perl and Ruby want to be suitable replacements for Scheme, not the other way around. The authors of these languages were well aware of Lisp and many features and aspects are imported wholesale. These systems amount to the author's critique of Lisp -- what they felt was lacking in syntax or style or hygiene or principles. Ruby says, Scheme is okay but why not more convenient syntax for objects? Perl says, Lisp is cool but why not a maddening assortment of wingdings? Scheme and CL bicker over whether an empty list embodies the concept of falsehood. JavaScript says wat? And Haskell is like, lol.