Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Thomas F. Burdick]

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak at knm.org.pl> writes:

> I find the Lisp syntax hardly readable when everything looks alike,
> mostly words and parentheses, and when every level of nesting requires
> parens. I understand that it's easier to work with by macros, but it's
> harder to work with by humans like I.

You find delimited words more difficult than symbols?  For literate
people who use alphabet-based languages, I find this highly suspect.
Maybe readers of only ideogram languages might have different
preferences, but we are writing in English here...

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           /|_     .-----------------------.                        
         ,'  .\  / | No to Imperialist war |                        
     ,--'    _,'   | Wage class war!       |                        
    /       /      `-----------------------'                        
   (   -.  |                               
   |     ) |                               
  (`-.  '--.)                              
   `. )----'