[peter_retief]

The real test of a programming language is its readabilty.

I looked at lisp many times and it just doesn't do it for me.

[_ph_]

That might be, on the other side, I consider Lisp highly readable, but quite a few modern languages quite unreadable. For example parsing type signatures with a complex syntax.

Any style of writing you are not familiar with will require a lot of training. Try reading anything written in the Greek alphabet for example.

[peter_retief]

Fair enough.

[BeetleB]

If you've not grown up accustomed to C-style syntax, I assure you that C is less readable. Even a for loop is crazy in C.