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If a dev is dumb enough to advocate clojure, I'd be pretty suspect about their coding ability in general. I have yet to work with a decent programmer who liked it.

And in Scala:

    if(foo > bar && bar > boo) doSomething(a, b, c)
    else doSomethingElse(d, e, f)

> Yet, if you weren't sure, you'd have to take a short break and go look that up to be certain.

If you don't know how logic works then why programming? Also, this is not a "complex rule", this is just BASIC LOGIC. As obvious as it can be: read it aloud and you have it.

Also, what would this even mean:

    (> foo bar boo)

THIS is what we need to check out because it's everything but obvious.

> So the parenthesis might seem cumbersome at first, but they quickly make syntax quite a lot simpler.

It won't, it'll just make the code monoton and harder to look at.