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Believe it or not, there is a reason Lisp code looks so strange. Lisp doesn't look this way because it was designed by a bunch of pointy-headed academics. It was designed by pointy-headed academics, but they had hard-headed engineering reasons for making the syntax look so strange. - Paul Graham