The point being made in the image is that experienced Lispers don't notice the parentheses. They look at the indentation. Lisp doesn't really have a syntax.

The point being made in the image is that experienced Lispers don't notice the parentheses. They look at the indentation. Lisp doesn't really have a syntax. If you want something which looks more like Python or C, you can either rewrite read, or use read macros. This has been attempted several times (Lisp 2, CGOL, Dylan), but in the end, the parentheses won.