[enriquto]

The rationale for this style seems to be to make it appealing to Lisp programmers, which will find it familiar.

I also dislike it for C (as much as I appreciate GNU's contribution). As we all know, K&R is the one true style.

[morelisp]

Nah, "utterly unreadable" is the right description.

[junon]

I've not written a lot of lisp (I understand it, just never had a need for it personally) so perhaps I'm ignorant, but I don't see how it's at all similar to Lisp. It just looks different for the sake of being different.