Clojure managed to keep the Lisp expressiveness while keeping the parentheses nesting low. I don't think I can list every Clojure feature that aids this goal bu

Clojure managed to keep the Lisp expressiveness while keeping the parentheses nesting low. I don't think I can list every Clojure feature that aids this goal but here's a few: * bindings (let forms & similar) make implicit pairs, so it's (let [a 1 b 2] ...) instead of (let ((a 1) (b 2)) ...) * square brackets as shorthand for vectors - the nesting level might be the same, but the second kind of brackets somehow helps the brain find the way in the parenthesis jungle. * lots of helpful macros (e.g. -> and ->>) and other helpers that help write terse code with low nesting. #(+ 5 %) as shorthand for (fn [x] (+5 x))