So if its not an issue in C languages, how come this is an issue in Clojure? The argument here is lisp has a simple rule. The first element of a list says that

So if its not an issue in C languages, how come this is an issue in Clojure? The argument here is lisp has a simple rule. The first element of a list says that what is to be done, the remaining are its inputs. That's really all there is to it(mostly). Using () for everything was really a kind of overloading, which is why I guess they used different opening and closing characters for different contexts.