I found writing in Lisp dialects enjoyable after having used mainly C and C++ for (too much) years partly because it was easier to reason about the syntax, of c

I found writing in Lisp dialects enjoyable after having used mainly C and C++ for (too much) years partly because it was easier to reason about the syntax, of course also for the obvious paradigmatical reasons. Slurpage and barfage, splicing, enclosing and other functions that editors provide really mean you are no more editing code on a textual, but rather structural level, and what makes this effective is the beautifully simple way Lisp programs are expressed. Coupled with the concise recursive representation of algorithms, ordinary functional programming goodies (map, fold, etc.) and the powerful macros, it feels like it completely redefined 'coding' for me. I wouldn't go back if I had the luxury of having such a choice. So anyone who finds this frame-based concept attractive will probably like Lisp's s-expression syntax and paredit mode in your favorite editor.