>>Perl has spent years working towards something that is starting to look a good deal like Lisp in Perl 6. Good example of your point, this is one of the thing

>>Perl has spent years working towards something that is starting to look a good deal like Lisp in Perl 6. Good example of your point, this is one of the things frustrating me in life. Most of the scripting languages have long been working on becoming larger subsets of Lisp. They still mostly haven't gotten close in e.g. efficient compilation. But sure, it would be cool if the Perl 6 e.g. really implemented a good macro system without sexpr functionality. Something to look forward to. I really don't understand how the Lisp people failed taking over the world. (Sigh, I should have helped instead of being sidetracked after univ. :-( Maybe I should start looking into Perl 6 development.)