[Shorel]

Actually, they came from very smart, well intentioned people, who thought everyone would program Lisp in this century. And of course never saw C (and all its related family of languages) coming and ruling for decades.

All these rules make sense for Lisp, and no sense at all for C.

And they did wrote the parser that applies those rules, in Emacs you never indent Lisp code, you press a key and the current s-expr automagically indents better than you could ever dream of doing it.