On: Why Racket? Why Lisp?

[GregBuchholz]

hmm...

    c = sqrt(a*a + b*b)

    (setf c (sqrt (+ (* a a) (* b b))))

[thoth → GregBuchholz]

Amusing... but to be fair, this is also an operator precedence issue where C is letting you drop several pairs.

[GregBuchholz → thoth]

>where C

...I think operator precedence allows the removal of the parenthesis for at least: Ada, C, C++, D, Dylan, Erlang, Fortran, Go, Haskell, Icon, Java, Javascript, Julia, Lua, Mathematica, OCaml, Pascal, Perl, Prolog, Python, QBasic, R, Ruby, Scala, and TCL.

[kazagistar → thoth]

I don't see how that is supposed to be a valid excuse. Non-lisps tend to support operator precedence, reducing the number of parens significantly. Thus, the argument "other languages require the same number of parens" is completely false.