Which is why lisp proponents have such a hard time understanding lisp critics: "Wait, you mean you were willing to reason through pointer arithmetic, monads, i

Which is why lisp proponents have such a hard time understanding lisp critics: "Wait, you mean you were willing to reason through pointer arithmetic, monads, implementing a b-tree, etc. but you simply saw the parens and decided that would forever be the thing that you cannot, will not overcome? I mean in spite of all the fairly objective benefits of having a perfectly regular syntax, and code that can be processed by computers?"