Well, many languages like Ada/Pascal or even SQL try to reduce the number of parentheses/braces. But you can manipulate their AST in Lisp easily; that's what ma

Well, many languages like Ada/Pascal or even SQL try to reduce the number of parentheses/braces. But you can manipulate their AST in Lisp easily; that's what makes working with DSLs easy. (procedure foo ((integer x) (in-out integer y)) (set y (+ 3 x y)))) ;; https://sites.google.com/site/sabraonthehill/postmodern-examples/postmodern-intro-to-s-sql (query (:order-by (:select 'countries.name :from 'countries :where (:= 'name '$1))) "Vietnam")