There's interesting content, even if you don't like his writing aesthetically.
Also, what pray tell is a "real" lisp? Last I checked, Emacs-Lisp has macros and much of what makes any lisp a "real" lisp.
What?
Perl OO did catch on, and it is part of the core language.
Has the situation changed? Are there OO things included with the default dist of Perl?
package Class;
sub new { my $class = shift; bless {} => $class }
sub method { my $self = shift; $self->{attribute} = 'value' };
package Subclass;
our @ISA = qw(Class);
sub method { my $self = shift; $self->SUPER::method(...); ... }
package main;
my $class = Subclass->new;
$class->method;