You don't have to give up on anything, that's the beauty of Lisp. Here's a library from 1993: https://github.com/quil-lang/cmu-infix https://github.com/quil-lan

You don't have to give up on anything, that's the beauty of Lisp. Here's a library from 1993: https://github.com/quil-lang/cmu-infix https://github.com/quil-lang/cmu-infix Though personally I don't particularly find (+ 1 2 3 4 5) less readable than 1+2+3+4+5, and since most of my programs don't have math expressions much more complicated than that, even without cmu-infix or alternatives (Maxima is great when you need to do real math, and for other related things I might as well link https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl#numerical-and-scientific https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl#numerical-and-sci...) I'd find the rest of the tradeoffs worth it, much like once I thought despite Python not having i++ or ++i it was still worthwhile. (In Lisp, by the way, one would use (incf i).)