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Just to drive the point home, Clojure's core.clj is 6,500+ lines of Lisp, funny enough, parens do not dominate - http://twitpic.com/6hwt28/full http://twitpic.c

• daniel_solano 15y ago
  Well, there is a very good reason for this: Clojure tries to reduce the number of parentheses by substituting other characters, namely square brackets []. For example: ; Common Lisp (defun add (x y) (+ x y)) ; Scheme (define (add x y) (+ x y)) ; Clojure (defn add [x y] (+ x y)) Also, Clojure eliminates some parentheses that are used in other Lisps: ; Common Lisp and Scheme (cond ((> x 0) 1) ((= x 0) 0) (t -1)) ; Clojure (cond (> x 0) 1 (= x 0) 0 :else -1)