in reply to Is there a way to call lisp from perl?

Look at the Arrow LISP source code... here. It's a simple pure-symbolic variant, but there is also freeware out there for Common Lisp subsets and full implementations. Here is a list of all LISP tools available on FreeBSD. Most should also be available on Linux et al, see this site for more links. As others have said, wrap one of them in SWIG or XS.

Don Wilde
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