[peterhunt]

Many people find deeply nested tree structures hard to read when you need to mentally balance a bunch of parentheses. The inability for s-expression languages to gain significant traction with lay programmers is evidence of this.

[reddit_clone]

People who use Lispy languages do _not_ balance parenthesis mentally. In fact they completely ignore parenthesis and go only by indentation. Parenthesis disappear when you are at certain level of proficiency.

[peterhunt]

Yep, but most people don't get to that level of proficiency.