The aside in the linked article about avoiding shifting and parens just to type a simple command is even more true once a command spans multiple lines. Say what

The aside in the linked article about avoiding shifting and parens just to type a simple command is even more true once a command spans multiple lines. Say what you will about syntactic attempts to remove the parens from Lisp, I think it's a secondary issue for a command language. There are some good observations about design pressures on command languages vs. programming languages in Olin Shivers's "A Scheme Shell", as well.