People don't like what's unfamiliar and a lot of parens are unfamiliar. That's mostly OK with me; people need to evaluate what they think is worth their time. B

People don't like what's unfamiliar and a lot of parens are unfamiliar. That's mostly OK with me; people need to evaluate what they think is worth their time. But typically this evaluation manifests as a gripe about syntax. Syntax does matter but not nearly as much as we like to talk about it! Myself, I only picked up Clojure a couple of weeks ago, give or take. I don't use it at work so this is in my spare time (which seems ever more shrinking). Parens aren't a big deal, and it's kind of crazy we spend this much time talking about them instead of something more significant. (Hell, maybe people just enjoy trolling.) Omit all indentation in Java or C++ and you'll be doing the bracket-counting that you assume Lispers spend their time doing.