Totally true. Plus you can have editors "present" the lisp tree however you like to see it (ie "whitespace" or parens !). Although I practice, I don't know if a

Totally true. Plus you can have editors "present" the lisp tree however you like to see it (ie "whitespace" or parens !). Although I practice, I don't know if anyone really writes code without the parens (for the reason you say).