That's obviously nonsense. Java, one pair of parens: int x = 1; int y = x + 1; System.out.println(y); Clojure, six pairs of brackets: (let [

That's obviously nonsense. Java, one pair of parens: int x = 1; int y = x + 1; System.out.println(y); Clojure, six pairs of brackets: (let [x 1 y (+ x 1)] ((. (. System out) println) y))