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Re:The Idea of Lisp by DonaldFisk on Friday December 16, 2016 @11:49AM (#13194568)
Code readability depends mostly on giving variables and functions meaningful names, and function size/number of variables. That applies to all languages.

Code layout/indentation is also an issue, but there's a single standard for Lisp, which Emacs is aware of.

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Re:The Idea of Lisp by goatlover on Friday December 16, 2016 @03:46PM (#13196631)
It's an issue for all languages which don't force layout/indentation. Why does Lisp gets criticized for parens when the C family has curly braces all over the place?
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Re:The Idea of Lisp by kazinator on Friday December 16, 2016 @07:37PM (#13198249)
Moreover, people write Makefiles for C, containing notation like:

   $(patsubst %.foo,%.bar,$(foreach blah,$(VAR),\
                                    whatever $(blah)))
People who can say with a straight face they find Lisp parentheses confusing have GNU Makefiles full of this crap, well debugged and all.
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