Highlight.js does support Perl, does mark up q{...} as strings and has no problem with quoting in Lisp. I'm not sure about Haskell thing you mention because Haskell is a new contribution. But I'm sure it's fixable if it doesn't do the right thing.

You're probably talking about a hoard of simplistic regexp parsers. Highlight.js is not one of them, it's a proper context-aware parser.