I used to hear the exact thing about Python, incidentally. People would complain about how horrible significant whitespace is and how it causes all these proble

I used to hear the exact thing about Python, incidentally. People would complain about how horrible significant whitespace is and how it causes all these problems, yet everyone I spoke to that used Python said the same thing: that it fades away into the background very quickly and ceases to be an issue. This was also my exact experience with significant whitespace. Lisp parentheses are the exact same way, in my experience. You hate them until you spend a few weeks writing a Lisp and then they just fade into the background, never to bother you again. Then once you learn paredit, it becomes painful to use other languages again! (And now with parinfer, I think about them even less still) Incidentally, in my experience, Clojure typically has the same amount of parentheses as typical OO languages, in some cases fewer, its just that the opening paren is moved one word to the left. Also, to anybody new to Lisp: try an editor with rainbow parentheses.