What makes Lisp difficult to read?

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Or, where to put the parentheses in your next languageThe Lisp family of programming languages is infamous for their parenthesis-heavy syntax. Many people, myself included, find this syntax more difficult to read than the notation of languages like Python, Java or C. The perceived unreadability of Lisp is significant enough that multiple attempts have been made to create new notations to aid Lisp’s adoption. Yet, despite these attempts and Lisp being nearly as old as computing science itself, I have not yet encountered a fully satisfying explanation as to why Lisp is perceived as being less readable.Lisp developers commonly argue that this is simply an issue of familiarity; Lisp notation is less common than C notation and programmers are therefore less used to reading it. Once you get used to programming in Lisp you don’t even notice the parentheses, allegedly. I believe there is more to it, and that with a deeper investigation we may gain insight into how to design pleasant syntax.…