This is not true for many reasons. Firstly every time you begin a block of code in any language you add parentheses, So the parentheses count comes out same in

This is not true for many reasons. Firstly every time you begin a block of code in any language you add parentheses, So the parentheses count comes out same in all languages. Secondly, parentheses are a non-issue in lisp. Its almost like reading english text with spaces. After a while(quite quickly in-fact) they are a total non issue. >>New programmers and developers look at that and compare it to something like Go, Python, or JavaScript, and all those look easier to write Arguably the biggest problem today is programmers who are stuck at early intermediate level all life.