What makes Lisp difficult to read?

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Or, where to put the parentheses in your next languageThe Lisp family of programming languages is infamous for their parenthesis-heavy syntax. Many people, myself included, find this syntax more difficult to read than the notation of languages like Python, Java or C. Different interpretations of readability are possible which favour Lisp notation.

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