> deluge of useless parenthesis that it is, it hurts my eyes to read that code. Oh, how I wish I could share the joy I experience using Paredit with those pare

> deluge of useless parenthesis that it is, it hurts my eyes to read that code. Oh, how I wish I could share the joy I experience using Paredit with those parentheses. Paredit turns parentheses from an inconvenience into a turbo button for modifying code at an entirely new level of abstraction. When you started coding, you probably used an editor that worked on units that were single characters. Think Notepad. Then maybe you learned a programmers editor like Emacs, Vim, or Atom or Sublime. There you learned to cut, copy, fold, spindle, and mutilate code in lines or paragraphs. But Paredit... oh Paredit... now you have the tools to work with your code not in characters, lines, or paragraphs, but in code forms—the same stuff your code is made from. And the best part is that Paredit doesn’t have to have a deep knowledge of your code, groping imperfectly like Intellisense. Paredit is deterministic and easy to implement. If I could have an S-expression based version of every other language simply for paredit, I'd take it. Now a story for a different day is how much I hate typing commas in non-lisps.