[blunte]

I can't reply to your lower example because it's too deep, but I would point out that clojure does not have the other symbols - equal and comma.

In your lower example, Clojure has only one more non alphanumeric character than the other example.

Furthermore, in Lisp, you always know that you have (function-name param param etc). Reading it becomes not just easier - it removes an entire layer of abstraction (syntax rules). Also, with smart editors, you gain the ability to move these around rapidly in ways that you simply cannot do with other languages.

Funny thing is, the biggest annoyance I have when not using Clojure is having to type commas between items in data structure. [1 2 3 4 5] just looks so much cleaner than [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. I forget who wrote it, but they complained of seeing all the mouse turds "," in normal programming languages.

[kazinator]

Even math notation dispenses with the silly commas in matrix notation, which so nice it gets used for vectors also.