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by samatman 2795 days ago
3. Lisps optimize tail calls, leading to easier and more efficient recursion. This does tend to increase depth of code.

4. The lisp punctuation style closes all levels on a single line, where most C code guidelines close one level per line. This leads to a "thick" chunk of close parens that students of lisp find harder to read at first.