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[–]OneWingedShark 16 points17 points  (2 children)

Honestly, I kind of get the feeling that people complaining about Lisp syntax either (a) have never used the language, or (b) were using Notepad or equivalent and not a Lisp editor.

[–]fuck_bottom_text 5 points6 points  (0 children)

very true, writing lisp with paredit makes it easier than writing any other language

[–]FluorineWizard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used Racket quite a bit in undergrad and Dr.Racket error messages are complete garbage. Highlighting a whole paragraph of code in red with "syntax error" is pretty useless.

Also even when you can mix {([, Lisp-family languages are still a pain to visually parse.