I never understand these complaints about parenthesis, my editor takes care of them. Interestingly people never complain about the inconsequences in mathematical notation, i.e. infix operators like plus or minus (e.g. 3+5), postfix operators like faculty (i.e. 9!) and last but not least prefixed user defined funtions like f(x).

But as Lisp was my first real language, I might be a bit biased. And besides Lisp I like languages like Forth or Postscript, and even Perl ;-)

It’s not about writing but about readability. Clojure is easier to read than Scheme because it uses more punctuation (brackets and braces instead of only parens.

There’s a point in using different signs that mean different things.

That's great, but they specifically sold it as not having Lisp-like syntax. And yet its incredibly Lisp-like.