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by zebraman 2793 days ago
> I hope that some derivative of perl can rise from the ashes, because I'm too stupid to write actual lisp programs, but perl allows me to emulate what I imagine lisp programmers must feel.

Well, there is Clojure. You can script it with `clj` and https://github.com/l3nz/cli-matic, and/or one of the ClojureScript interpreters. It has sane library management, so there is no PITA installing anything. You have JVM libraries, so you have all you need. We find it pretty handy.