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As I mentioned, but you still downvoted me, I didn't downvote lisp. I have used lisp - required to use it in a course. And I do recall seeing that many parentheses in lisp programs. I recall seeing that many parentheses (and curly braces) in C, C#, Java, Javascript, Perl, Scala, groovy, PHP, and other programs, too. Let's not pretend they don't exist though.


I do not downvote people people for expressing their opinions. Also I doubt if I have enough karma to do that. Someone else did. :)

What I meant was, Lisp programmers usually learn to ignore the parens. When I look at a Lisp code, I just see indentation and code. Your eyes train themselves to do that. Also I have never found excessive parens to be an issue at all. But like I said, maybe thats just me.




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