If you code in C, C++, C#, JS, or Java, there is a good chance your code has just as many curly brackets and parentheses as the equivalent code in lisp. The big

If you code in C, C++, C#, JS, or Java, there is a good chance your code has just as many curly brackets and parentheses as the equivalent code in lisp. The biggest differences being they are more irregular in location and there are more newlines separating your closing delimiters. Check this insightful comment out. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6960546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6960546 If you code in Ruby, Python, or Coffeescript, yeah, lisp has more parens, no doubt. That is the price of its regularity. Lisp could throw all that out the window, but you'd lose the easy macros. Edit: added the link