> If the syntax requires special tooling to make it usable, isn't that a sign that the syntax is hard? Not in this case. Lisp syntax is easy, people lack famil

> If the syntax requires special tooling to make it usable, isn't that a sign that the syntax is hard? Not in this case. Lisp syntax is easy, people lack familiarity. The only "hard" part is checking that the number of parens are right. But it's not that other programming languages don't have equivalent "hard" problems, like closing the right kind and amount of brackets on C, of whitespace problems in python.