You're missing out on a huge amount of great things if you let the parenthesis stop your lisp journey. With editor support for formatting and matching they are

You're missing out on a huge amount of great things if you let the parenthesis stop your lisp journey. With editor support for formatting and matching they are easy to deal with. In fact the main reason closing brackets are so noticeable in lisp languages is because of the minimal syntax needed. In other languages you need to deal with statements and expressions that end in many ways such as "fi" in bash, the lack of a tab in Python, ")};" in JavaScript.