> dismissive of those who find it hard to read I've seen it multiple times - it's only the initial reaction, it doesn't usually take too long for anyone to adj

> dismissive of those who find it hard to read I've seen it multiple times - it's only the initial reaction, it doesn't usually take too long for anyone to adjust to the syntax. I have never met anyone who used a Lisp for several months and still hates it and finds it unreadable. I wouldn't count anecdotal encounters of people online, claiming for it to be mostly true. I have seen people using one Lisp e.g., Clojure and having difficulty quickly parsing a different Lisp dialect, e.g., EmacsLisp, but that's not "Lisp being unreadable," it's just unfamiliarity with specific language idioms. I had also seen people who learned Clojure before any other languages and then tried learning a non-lispy language (java, python, etc.) and surprisingly claimed it to be harder to read (initially). > that dismissiveness counts against Lisp adoption I agree, but how do you fix this problem? You can't remove parens and keep it homoiconic. Tools like Parinfer do help, but they don't address the problem: Lisp doesn't look "sexy" for those who are unfamiliar with it. I kept ignoring Lisp for many years, simply because I didn't know better. I wish there were people who'd keep telling me that parentheses are not a problem, they are a solution.