[jokethrowaway]

It's hard to maintain and read. There you go.

I'm not a huge fan of lisp, but I do like the language. Unfortunately, it's way too hard on 90% of the developers. They need some more structure so they can think about one thing at a time, which is why C-like syntax won in the end.

All the best developers I know are into Lisp or Haskell (or both). They can crank out ridiculous code which then goes unused because maintenance would be too much of a burden. Sometimes I write some really complex one-liners (which are like 5-10 lines long) to do some tasks using all the possible hacks to avoid having to type an extra character. I might be able to do that, but most developers wouldn't be able to see how the data get transformed and keep all of that in their mind. Whatever I wrote is unmaintainable by most people.

The reality is that the majority of people can't grasp their mind around complex concepts. Which is ok, most developers write a few API endpoints and some UI components, they don't need much to create value.

We can get some good concepts from the functional world and transfer them to C-like syntax languages though. We can even have some of the programmability of Lisp (but not all of it) via macros.