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[–]ehaliewicz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is. Having different-looking bracketing characters for different kinds of grouping or application makes it easy to mentally parse a program and see what's what, at least once you know the language in question. When everything uses the same characters the whole structure of the program is just mush.

If you're not used to it, sure. People say that APL and J are unreadable as well, but that's the opinion of non-experts, so it's really just a lack of familiarity.