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What makes Lisp difficult to read?
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I've tried a couple of times but it seems pretty cursed.
i had to try again a couple times too before i got my brain to understand it, also maybe had to find just the right guide (practical common lisp in my case), but now that it's in there its much easier for me to reason about code using LISP than it was ever in C/++/#, D, Java, Python...