| Is there? I'm not convinced. I think a lot of the readability issues come from lisp syntax being unfamiliar, not from some intrinsic impenetrability. And then even more from being associated with functional programming, also unfamiliar to a lot of people. Look at common lisp nested for loop[0]. Are they really that hard to read? And then there's the minimalism of lisp syntax. Once you know how to call a function and the few data literals (list, vectors, set, ...), you know 90+% of the syntax. Compare with python, where you also need to learn class syntax, annotation syntax, for loops, if, while, comprehensions, etc. And the list keeps growing, there's new features being added continuously. In lisp, if the language introduces a new construct, it's still going to be just symbols in between two parenthesis. [0] https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/iteration.html#lo... |