I think this is a feeble excuse. That is, it's an excuse generated by a lazy mind. The first time I saw Lisp, I was not "primed" to dislike it. It was early

I think this is a feeble excuse. That is, it's an excuse generated by a lazy mind. The first time I saw Lisp, I was not "primed" to dislike it. It was early in my programming education. I was fresh, as they say. It looked no more cluttered than Pascal, the main language being taught at the time. Can I write really ugly and hard to visually parse Lisp? Yes. Bad code can be written in any language.