Paredit was written primarily for the use of its author, Taylor R. Campbell. If you ever met Taylor R. Campbell, you would understand why it feels like an airpl

Paredit was written primarily for the use of its author, Taylor R. Campbell. If you ever met Taylor R. Campbell, you would understand why it feels like an airplane cockpit. (Think: John Carmack writing something for John Carmack's use, and it turns out you need to be as smart as John Carmack to figure it out.) I tried Paredit out in the early days; it was heavily inspired by SEdit, the structured editor that came with Xerox's Interlisp-based Lisp machines (an open source version of whose OS is available here: https://interlisp.org https://interlisp.org). I really liked it, but with time I found it was just another "targeting computer" I had to switch off in order to keep focus on my code, so I ended up not using it for most of my Lisp work.