> I still "see the parentheses" The parentheses are a serialisation format; there are many alternatives using indentation, braces, infix application, etc. (e.g

> I still "see the parentheses" The parentheses are a serialisation format; there are many alternatives using indentation, braces, infix application, etc. (e.g. those listed at http://www.chriswarbo.net/blog/2017-08-29-s_expressions.html http://www.chriswarbo.net/blog/2017-08-29-s_expressions.html ). The nice thing is, s-expressions are so simple that we can usually convert between them automatically (e.g. piping our indentation-based code through an indentation-to-parentheses converter before it hits an interpreter). However, despite having all these alternative syntaxen, the fact that the vast majority of Lisp code is still written with parenthesised s-expressions tells me that it's really a non-issue :)