You might argue that s-expression syntax is "worse is better" but I'd argue that more complex syntaxes are "accidental complexity." You need a parser, you ne

You might argue that s-expression syntax is "worse is better" but I'd argue that more complex syntaxes are "accidental complexity." You need a parser, you need a more complex prettyprinter. Without s-expressions you also lose programmer access to the parse tree. For the usual arithmetic operators I've never had any problem, but I was once caught out when programming in C by getting the precedence of << and >> wrong (at least to me, it's counterintuitive), and it took a few hours to find the bug, because my code looked correct. Had I just parenthesized everything, that bug wouldn't have happened.