[c0achmcguirk]

Using a Lisp-like language is great for creating a new language because of the S-expressions that Lisp depends on.

S-expressions are very compact and are easy to parse. There was actually some support for using S-expressions over XML and JSON as a serialization language.[1]

Ron Rivest even proposed S-expressions as a standard.[2]

I still prefer JSON over them though. As the old joke goes, LISP stands for "Lots of Irritating Silly Parentheses."

1 - http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/03/04/some-thoughts-on-jso...

2 - http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt