It has to be something about familiarity, because for me it's the opposite. I find that nested parens in Lisp make the code pretty hard to read. It's difficult

It has to be something about familiarity, because for me it's the opposite. I find that nested parens in Lisp make the code pretty hard to read. It's difficult to pinpoint where the processing begins. I also find myself constantly scanning left and right for parens boundaries. It's exhausting. In Forth, you read your word from left to right, "playing" stack effect in your head, and you always know where you're at processing wise. Pretty simple, but I guess one must have inclinations towards thinking about the generated native code underneath rather than thinking in terms of symbols.