[gunderson]

If you bring some of the close parens down to new lines, then the lisp example is just as "squintable" as the java.

I know that's bad lisp style, so I guess you'd have to argue that lisp devs have bad taste or don't care about program structure, neither of which are true.

[maxwell]

The author seems to be is appreciating an anti-feature. If you can squint at a block of code and know roughly what it does based on formatting alone, you've probably found an artificial pattern which should be rewritten at a higher level of abstraction (if you can without hitting the conceptual ceiling of your language).