When people say they hate "parentheses" in Lisp, I'm pretty sure what they really mean is "I hate s-expressions." You may find them natural to work with, but i

When people say they hate "parentheses" in Lisp, I'm pretty sure what they really mean is "I hate s-expressions." You may find them natural to work with, but it's pretty clear most programmers do not. Witness the crazy amount of work compiler writers put into writing parsers that could be trivially done away with if they just switched to using s-expressions. Personally I prefer both Forth's RPN and C/C++ (Algol?) style notation to Lisp's s-expressions.