Lisp does have "syntax" but it doesn't have syntactic sugar. But yes, it's very minimalistic syntactically and the "sugar" might be what people are missing on f

Lisp does have "syntax" but it doesn't have syntactic sugar. But yes, it's very minimalistic syntactically and the "sugar" might be what people are missing on first contact. And the dreaded parenthesis? That's a thing my editor took care of in the last 30+ years.