I would argue perl has a superior practical elegance so you can write perl in a kinda-sexp style if you really want to (no one does, which tells you something)

I would argue perl has a superior practical elegance so you can write perl in a kinda-sexp style if you really want to (no one does, which tells you something)...but you get a kinda-sexp built-in syntax for hashes whereas lisps make you construct them with bolted on functions