I think coding in lisp-family languages without using structural editing (aka paredit) is a significant waste of time. It takes maybe 2 hours to get used to it.

I think coding in lisp-family languages without using structural editing (aka paredit) is a significant waste of time. It takes maybe 2 hours to get used to it. If you don't use it, you will spend more time counting and adjusting parentheses than actually writing symbols, and you will spend more time fixing bugs caused by bad parentheses than thinking about the logic of your program. In addition, after you make the jump, you will never complain again about lisp having "too many parentheses". "If paredit is not for you, then you need to become the sort of person that paredit is for. -Phil Hagelberg"