Parentheses are no issue at all...dead serious there. Use something like parinfer (easy for beginners!) or paredit, and that problem goes away right now. You wo

Parentheses are no issue at all...dead serious there. Use something like parinfer (easy for beginners!) or paredit, and that problem goes away right now. You won't even see the parentheses--trust me. I agree that not having other special symbols to break up the code and make easier to pick apart is kind of crappy. Enter Clojure... it elegantly supports other symbols in a non-eccentric (looking at you, Haskell) sort of way, which I find helps a lot. [] vector, {} map, #{} set...you get the idea.