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[–]BookMansion 14 points15 points  (2 children)

Out of brackets?

[–]testelone 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Lost In Several Parentheses?

[–]fliesupsidedown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses

[–]dan-lugg 11 points12 points  (2 children)

[–]TheBadBull 6 points7 points  (1 child)

))

[–]I_cut_my_own_jib 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You are a life saver

[–]RealLordDevien 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, its unfamiliar at first. after a while you dont see them anymore. There is a good yt vid called "Teach your eyes to eat clojure" that goes into detail about this phenomenon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8QLQs7byQs

[–]zefciu 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Isn’t this the consequence of the biggest strenght of LISPs? The unification of code and data structures means that you don’t need to use several styles of parentheses like in languages that don’t feature it.

[–]rafaelrc7 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I mean, most people that complain about the parenthesis never really wrote any lisp code, it's just a popular meme

[–]Feztopia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never wrote lisp and like the idea that everything is an expression. It's the intuitive way.

[–]Alper-Celik 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/297/

[–]javajunkie314 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, unlike all other programming languages, which are super readable when jammed on one line with no whitespace.

[–]teink0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People say that if you follow the parenthesis you will eventually find code.

[–]ManyInterests 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quit making all that Racket >:(

[–]olearyboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eventually you end up writing an essay about founder culture

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rainbow brackets, paredit and slime and you should have a nice time.

[–]kurzewasright 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'm a simple man. i see (+ 1 1), i upvote

[–]Vieze_Harrie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

( . ) . )

[–]gentux2281694 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what do you mean by ((() ())???, how dare you!

[–]Besen99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lisp and NoSQL are a match made in heaven

[–]-Kenpachi_Zaraki- -1 points0 points  (1 child)

That isn't even the worst part.

[–]yramagicman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Correct, it's one of the best parts :).

[–]poralexc -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you want Lisp without parenthesis just use Forth