[taylorallred]

I was really interested in lisps for a couple of years, but eventually I came to the conclusions: it's just hard to read. I know they say "the parens disappear" but even if that is the case, it simply requires you to jump around the expression holding lots of context in your head. I'm a fan of code that mostly reads top-to-bottom, left-to-right.

[reikonomusha]

Lisp code is written top to bottom, left to right. Is your grievance more to do with expression-oriented—as opposed to statement-oriented—languages? "Do this" (statement) vs "represent this" (expression)? For instance, do Haskell, OCaml, etc. also irk you in similar ways?

[Avshalom]

Lisp is written top to bottom left to right but because it's (almost) fully nested it's executed right to left bottom to top.

Haskell and OCaml are, by comparison, not very nested.

[FranklinJabar]

> I'm a fan of code that mostly reads top-to-bottom, left-to-right.

Programs are rarely linear; why do you expect code to be?