> The S-Expressions on the either hand are a sea of parentheses with no way to quickly tell what's a list or mapping or whatever without closely looking at each

> The S-Expressions on the either hand are a sea of parentheses with no way to quickly tell what's a list or mapping or whatever without closely looking at each item. I guess that's part of the point from my point of view: it's not about hash tables or objects or even lists, but about what they represent. In my view focusing on the implementation (a hash table mapping strings to hash tables mapping strings to numbers or strings) is looking at the trees and missing the forest.