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by rapind 4840 days ago
As a non-lisper reading over some of those examples I definitely prefer his "Sweet-expression". Seems much more approachable.

Once I make a serious foray into Lispland maybe that'll change...

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Change your IDE's color scheme so that parens are rendered in a low-contrast font color. The parens will be less-obvious.

Emacs' automatic indentation to The Proper Place is tremendously useful. I find Lisp's indentation to be just as easy as Python's, for example -- likely as I have used a Lisp for six years before coming to Python.

Once you've used it for a while, you don't think of it as much different from using {} for control blocks, () for method calls, and [] for array indexing in other languages. For me, the parens "go away", in that I follow the program control flow more by indentation than by counting parens.