Is that a valid reason? I know that personal taste plays a strong and important role but typescript is really cool.
I didn't like Lisp for a long time because of it, I've since given up and tried Lisp. My friends don't care for Lisp probably because of that as well.
I could get over the parentheses but CAR and CDR instead of HEAD / TAIL or FIRST / REST annoy the crap out of me.
CAR means Content of Address part of Register and CDR means Content of Decrement part of Register. They were tied to the 36-bits nature of the first LISP machines, with 15 bits to CAR and 15 bits to CDR (plus 2 bits for tags IIRC).
So its not just naming keys in a structure, those had a very low level meaning related the the implementation of the CONS cell structure in hardware.
I have no idea about the veracity of the claim but this page[0] contends that Lisp has had first/rest since 1959.