Familiarity can certainly be a stumbling block initially but I found it isn’t always the main problem. It’s very easy to write code that’s hard to read, becaus

Familiarity can certainly be a stumbling block initially but I found it isn’t always the main problem. It’s very easy to write code that’s hard to read, because everything nests and composes neatly together. But a Lisp usually also gives you a lot of tools to structure code very nicely. Such as: - local bindings to structure code in a LTR fashion - macros to provide syntactic sugar - functions are very easily extracted, because everything is an expression - closures provide context and can be composed and specialized Points 1 and 3 can be provided as automatic refactorings by a good editor. So code can be literally an AST dump versus very clear and expressive with a Lisp.