I write clojure and a little bit of C and I find the clojure part extremely more readable...
Is it because it simply does a lot more with less code, though?
Just squinting at the code to see the shape of it rather than worrying about the contents, the C blocks look more distinct, to me.
https://github.com/stuarthalloway/programming-clojure/blob/m...
https://github.com/tcltk/tcl/blob/master/generic/tclCompile....
Grabbed at random. I think the larger indentation and fewer parens do make a difference when you squint at things.
Of course, I also think as a professional programmer, if something does the job, get over it and get on with it. I use Erlang myself, which also gets lots of syntax complaints.