Oh, I totally get that. The "problem" is that of building languages on top of Lisp, which is really half of the point. The languages that can be trivially built on top of Lisp generally look like Lisp. I would like to be able to use a language with Lisp's capabilities to build a new language which looks completely different.

I'm not really asking for an answer here; this is really just a thought exercise on my part that I thought I'd share.