Why don't people like lisp?

[Rainer Joswig]

In article <d6cu5czr.fsf at comcast.net>, prunesquallor at comcast.net wrote:

> mike420 at ziplip.com writes:
> 
> > On the other hand, Joe Marshall and
> > someone else touted writing Lisp code that has 25+ nesting levels. Others
> > approved such practice. I think 25+ depth is much worse than 300+ length. 
> 
> Depth 25 isn't really that bad.  Consider a simple LET expression:
> 
> (let ((x (+ a b)))
>    ...)
> 
> That + is four levels deep in parens.  There's a few similar sort of
> constructs that end up being somewhat deep.  For example, look for an
> item in a collection by it's nickname, if it has one:
> 
> (cond ((find item collection 
>              :key (lambda (thing)
>                     (or (thing-nickname thing)
>                         (thing-name thing)))) ...)
>       (....))
> 
> THING-NICKNAME is 6 levels deep.  Wrap something like that in a
> handler-case, and you'll be up in the 20+ parenthesis in no time.
> 
> The 25+ thing I found was an unusual coincidence of several of these
> `parenthesis-rich' constructs together.  It was `logically' much
> shallower.
> 

Why should be an indention depth of, say, 25 should be worse than, say,
20? Indention depth is seldom a problem at all. I really
don't care - it just needs to be indented in a way I can
read it on a screen. It is just another 'made up' problem
of Lisp.