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What makes Lisp difficult to read?
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Thanks for this, I was half going to respond with a glib "skill issue" in response to the article
I worked with Scheme on a project about a decade ago now, and the only code in the project that wasn't particularly readable was the code written by someone who didn't attempt to learn conventions and appropriate tooling before contributing.
I was tempted, but nobody learns anything from that.
I have the impression the author of the article has dabbled with Lisp but hasn't actually set up a reasonable development environment and written something non-trivial. That's not a great position from which to write critiques of a language.