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What makes Lisp difficult to read?
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Their first comment provided reasoning. This "because that's the way it is" framing is unfair.
The article is 90% about brackets and Polish notation is nearly a footnote. How is the reasoning that "it's mostly familiarity" sound? When I call
doSomething(param, arg, whatever)moving over the left bracket a word isn't going to confuse people because of "familiarity".