Yes.

http://tinyurl.com/ct3xyb

http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/

Why don't you make your editor to paint them white and indent them?

Make an editor which will randomly color-code each set of parentheses such that they or their background is in a set of colors which don't appear as other keywords (like function defs or strings or whatever) so as not to add confusion. You now have a way of more easily seeing every matching pair of parens without having to hover over each one. However, now you have to deal with a strange assortment of colors on your screen.

Oh wait, you can just use a gradient of colors instead of random ones, with the more-nested paren pairs having colors farther in on the gradient. Silly me.

"Oh wait, you can just use a gradient of colors instead of random ones, with the more-nested paren pairs having colors farther in on the gradient. Silly me."

Good idea! Is it doable in VIM now? :|

Some of us prefer the parens.

Parens let you have multiple expressions in one line, which indentation alone could not really express (except perhaps in a Haskell-like with currying, . and $ operators, etc).

For example, I don't see how (map (fn [x] (+ x 2)) (concat (take 5 my-series) etc...)) could be broken down with indentation alone without taking quite a few extra lines.

Dylan removes the parenthesis, but it doesn't go as far as using whitespace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_programming_language

See I-expressions.