It's like complaining that a Lamborghini sucks because the cupholders are hard to reach. I'm sure it would bother some people, but it's not really worth discussing, is it?
Note that the article is from 2005. Also comparing a lamborghini cup holder with syntax of a programming language doesn't make sense at all. The syntax of a language is something you look at and work with for maybe 8 hours a day and is the key part in communicating the language with the compiler and your coworkers.
The reason I, and I guess many other people don't like the lisp syntax is pure taste and psychological. I don't really care about a list of technical arguments why it is good. I don't like reading or writing the syntax lisp is written in and that will not change. That has nothing to do with being openminded or possible technical superiority over C style syntax. Writing and reading source code is far more enjoyable using other syntaxes solving the exact same problems so why should I bother with lisp?
PS: Who on earth would drink coffee in his fancy lamborginhi :D
It's actually more like saying a Lamborghini sucks because the steering wheel is square. It's a very basic feature of the language, and not one that you can avoid using.
The reason I, and I guess many other people don't like the lisp syntax is pure taste and psychological. I don't really care about a list of technical arguments why it is good. I don't like reading or writing the syntax lisp is written in and that will not change. That has nothing to do with being openminded or possible technical superiority over C style syntax. Writing and reading source code is far more enjoyable using other syntaxes solving the exact same problems so why should I bother with lisp?
PS: Who on earth would drink coffee in his fancy lamborginhi :D