[cobrausn]

Or akin to criticizing C for not being an expressive, high-level language.

Also, in response to your first point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine

[nickik]

If C would have lisp syntax it could do the alot of the same abstractions.

[bunderbunder]

A low-level imperative language with s-expression syntax would be one heck of an esoteric language.