You don't really see the parens after a while. Clojure's appeal goes beyond its syntax, as I'm sure does whichever language you prefer.
Curiously, the equivalent code in most other languages has about the same number of parens.
Curiously, the equivalent code in most other languages has about the same number of parens.
You can just do:
let fibs = 1 : 1 : [ fibs !! n + fibs !! (n - 1) | n <- [1..] ]
take 10 $ iterate (succ . recip) 1
To me these read much more clearly but then I haven't written anything big in a lispy language yet.
(def fibo (map second
(iterate (fn [[x y]] [y (+ x y)]) [0 1])))
Once again, for your CF ex:
(take 10 (iterate (comp inc /) 1))
Haskell is a really cool language: I'm making my way through Real World Haskell right now!
Which is indeed what happened with me, I saw indentation and would e.g. use that to get the right number of closing parens in a function and at the same time detect a certain class of mistakes.
Give a Lisp an honest try (Scheme is simpler than Clojure) and you might find it works for you.