Re:Holy syntax overload batman! (Score 1)

That's the part that Perl does not have, and never will (though Perl 6 comes as close as a truely compiled language reasonably can)

Ah. ajs, you do know that most lisp's compile to machine code these days (actually, they have for decades), don't you? In fact there are some very, very good optimizing lisp compilers.

So, while you are correct that much of the flexibility of lisp falls out of S-expressions, it's not true that you cannot have that flexibility WITHOUT S-expressions.

This is probably not true. Many languages have tried, and failed. I don't know enough about perl6 to be sure, but it is probably just another in a long line of attempts...

What Lisp *does* have that Perl 5 does not is an excellent macro mechanism (which also falls out of S-expressions).

A fair bit of lisps flexibility and power comes from the macro system, so your statements are fairly reasonable; however there is no a-priori reason to accept that perl6 will be as flexible or as powerful as lisp --- perl5 isn't even close.