Well from the perspective of a programmer that doesn't know lisp, and has been put off in the past due to its syntax: I find this dialect much more appealing.

Well from the perspective of a programmer that doesn't know lisp, and has been put off in the past due to its syntax: I find this dialect much more appealing. Nested round brackets are pretty horrible to read / parse. Whether it destroys the essence of what lisp is all about is another matter, but I suspect it doesn't at all.