Yep, that was very much meant to be a "yes, and" reply. There's quite the overlap between perlers and lispers because of (among other things) the shared love o

Yep, that was very much meant to be a "yes, and" reply. There's quite the overlap between perlers and lispers because of (among other things) the shared love of 'building the language up towards the problem.' People have been known to describe bits of my perl code as easiest read by treating it as lisp that incidentally uses a really weird sort of M-expressions and runs on the perl5 VM ;)