>New programmers and developers look at that and compare it to something like Go, Python, or JavaScript, and all those look easier to write (although deceptivel

>New programmers and developers look at that and compare it to something like Go, Python, or JavaScript, and all those look easier to write (although deceptively complex in places) and are 1000x easier to read. Are you sure? Reading a file in Go func read(f) { var text string var scanner *bufio.Scanner var err error file, err := os.Open(f) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } scanner = bufio.NewScanner(file) for scanner.Scan() { text += scanner.Text() } err = scanner.Err() if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } fmt.Println(text) } in Common Lisp (defun read (filename) (with-open-file (input filename) (loop for line = (read-line input nil) while line do (print line)))) Now tell me which one is easier to read. And the lisp example you can understand what it does without even knowing any kind of Lisp language; it is almost english.