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That might look like a whim, but I always found Lisp to be a rebutal language due to it’s mandatory enclosing brackets.

As M-expressions avoid this pitfall, I wonder if any actually language either implemented the homoiconicity and conceptual elegance of Lisp without requiring these encompassing parentheses.

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I'll say Factor, maybe red-lang.

(parens are great though ;) structural editing, no-brainer syntax, easy to extend the language. Once you pop parens, you can't stop)

Though, Factor is a concatenative language, so not exactly a lisp.

Though it still has a lot to love for a lisper.

Mathematica.

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