> Where LISP throws me off is the excessive use of parenthesis There's a standard way to indent lisp (the emacs way, which everybody copies) and as long as it'

> Where LISP throws me off is the excessive use of parenthesis There's a standard way to indent lisp (the emacs way, which everybody copies) and as long as it's indented properly you read it like a whitespace significant language (Python, F#, etc). Clojure is a bit easier to read than other lisps because it uses [] for vectors, arguments, and assignment blocks and {} for maps and sets. Gives the code a bit more texture. People writing lisp day to day use an editor feature to automatically keep parens balanced (Paredit, Parinfer). Not required since there's a learning curve but it makes editing smoother if you're going to write lisp full time. A text editor that highlights the opening paren when the cursor is on the closing one (pretty common feature) is all you really need.