Guess what, syntax sometimes actually helps readability. For example Python's "something[2:-2]" to remove the first and last to elements of a list or maybe char

Guess what, syntax sometimes actually helps readability. For example Python's "something[2:-2]" to remove the first and last to elements of a list or maybe characters of a string. Lisp is the language, where you have to write the AST yourself instead of having a language-defined parser.