Not really.  We are demonstrating how multiline statements become hard to read in lisp because in practice you can only use function calls to write everything.<p>Any language where you write an entire function as a huge one liner expression with functionality in nested function calls is hard to read.  It&#x27;s the behavior, not the syntax per say.<p>What the actual behavior is doesn&#x27;t matter as much, even if you can reduce both of them to one liners in many languages.<p>ex:<p><pre><code>  def get-max-value(list)
    reduce(:max, list)
  end</code></pre>