I have done quite a bit of Python hacking, as well as Javascript and Ruby. You really do get over the parentheses thing. In fact it more or less becomes a non-i

I have done quite a bit of Python hacking, as well as Javascript and Ruby. You really do get over the parentheses thing. In fact it more or less becomes a non-issue after a few days. It just is not something that should make you decide against a language. The only time it becomes a major issue is if you are nesting many functions, but in that case the threading function is both utilized often and quite elegant. Instead of: (fun3 (fun2 (fun 1 "string"))) (-> "string" fun1 fun2 fun3)