[beders]

Here's the fundamental thing to understand. Especially if you are new to Lisp:

The lines are more concise. That also means you will need more time per line to read the code.

Especially in Java, you can skip over so much boiler plate code, you kinda feel you are reading code fast.

Not so with Lisp. You need some familiarity with it and you will need to adapt to a line just having more stuff to understand in it.

Also, you can tune this using libraries as many things are a la carte.