I just want to say, what has kept me away from LISP has nothing to do with parentheses. There are two "facts" that I can share to represent why I dislike LISP.

I just want to say, what has kept me away from LISP has nothing to do with parentheses. There are two "facts" that I can share to represent why I dislike LISP. The first is a quote bathed in absurdity from an actual LISP manual: > setf can also be used with any of these functions to change an existing component of x, but setf will not make new components. So, for example, the car of a cons can be assigned with setf of car, but the car of nil cannot be assigned with setf of car. Similarly, the car of the car of a cons whose car is a cons can be assigned with setf of caar, but neither nilnor a cons whose car is nil can be assigned with setf of caar. I think this sums up the aesthetic horror that LISP is to me. Pretty sure it was written by Dr. Seuss. But a far more important factor exists: There are no decent paying jobs for LISP programmers outside of the browser which is a personal hell to me. Besides Clojure, I know of no real foothold in the professional world. I have no doubt there are outliers, but, that's just not the kind of thing to bet on. So no, not bothered by the parentheses. Bothered by lack of real words with real meaning and lack of motivation to tolerate the ugliness.