You are comparing these tools based on superficial syntactic characteristics and completely missing the dynamic capabilities. You should look at a tool like Pe

You are comparing these tools based on superficial syntactic characteristics and completely missing the dynamic capabilities. You should look at a tool like Perl (5 or 6) much like you would a Lisp - a dynamic system that provides interesting and useful runtime features. I use Perl when I want features like `eval`...or when I want to push data around while delaying evaluating its type. This is why I suggest comparing the Perls to tools like Racket.