> Lisp de-prioritizes legibility at a glance and concision in order to give maximum priority to simplicity in metaprogramming. I'd need to see a source for thi

> Lisp de-prioritizes legibility at a glance and concision in order to give maximum priority to simplicity in metaprogramming. I'd need to see a source for this claim to believe that S-exprs are primarily for the benefit of metaprogramming. They have a lot of ancillary benefits in terms of uniformity, simplicity, and scope. Plus, learning paredit gives a lot of power at the keyboard, and you can't build an editing setup without something like S-exprs (or angle bracket equivalents like XML/HTML).