After you&#x27;ve been writing it for a while, reading Lisp &#x2F; Clojure at a glance is not nearly as scary as it seems at first. You get used to it, and that one-liner becomes a paragon of elegant simplicity rather than a strange collection of symbols.<p>It&#x27;s just a different mode of scanning than what we&#x27;ve become accustomed to by working in mainly ALGOL-derived languages. With practice, it becomes second nature (and ALGOLs seem needlessly verbose by comparison :)