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>modestly more readable languages.

This is definitely all relative, I would argue lisp is easier to read given that the philosophy of its syntax is that there is no syntax...

Though if you've only ever read classical languages I can see how lisp would seem alien

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Lisp someone else wrote is harder to read than Perl you wrote, but any Lisp is easier to read than Perl someone else wrote.

My experience with Perl was that me-a-week-ago counts as someone else. That's not flippant — it's an accurate reflection of my experience that Perl tends to be write-only.

There are some people who do write beautiful Perl, but they are few and far between (again, in my experience).

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