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    6 days ago

    Notice that they have the same number of parenthesis. People say that lisps have a lot of parentheses, but they have the same number as any other language that uses parentheses to make function calls.

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      I find one huge advantage of Lisp syntax is that you can visually see relationships in code by following the nesting. It’s like having a diagram embedded for free once you get used to reading it.