Some may consider Lisp a failure of a language, but I sure am glad my startup is written in Lisp! The issue of syntax baffles me, because in recently learning Javascript, the essential area of bugs for me were almost all syntax related. I never have to worry about syntax in lisp as its either ( or ). There are no ; or } or { or , etc to worry about what goes where when.

The logical structure reveals itself so clearly in the form of indentation so that the parenthesis become transparent for me. Having emacs slime automate the indenting is of course essential in enabling a clear focus on the function of the code instead of spending time thinking about the syntax.