View Poll Results: Do you like Lisp's style?

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    I don't like Lisp's uniformness. There is no syntactic distinction between, well, anything. A function definition has exactly the same syntax as a condition handler as an addition. This means that distinction between such concepts is entirely reliant on programmer discipline, a good convention, and familiarity with that convention. The last point makes it hard for beginners to read, the first is simply unrealistic.
    Never got into the language, really. I prefer Haskell for my functional needs.
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    The deep nesting of parens is sometimes hard to grok, but otherwise, I love Lisp's regular syntax. I agree with sean in that Lisp macros are one of the most powerful tools in any language, basically allowing you to completely redesign the language (Something that practically requires prefix syntax).

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