It's interesting to hear from someone else who also finds that Clojure/Lisp code can be difficult to read. I worked with Clojure professionally for 2 years and had started to think that I was the odd one out since everyone else I worked with was just gushing over the readability of the code. At times it could be easy to read, but very often I found it hard to follow and would have to spend more time then others deconstructing what was happening.

Which is not to say that I didn't like working with Clojure. I very much did. But it always seemed to be such a chore to read others code or code I hadn't seen in a few months or more. I remember on occasion showing some snippets of code to a co-worker and commenting that I thought there was too much "clever" code in there, that it was too dense and hard to follow. The co-worker didn't agree with me though, and I guess I just resigned myself to the idea that I was the odd one out here or something.

Ultimately, I think I ended up coming to the same conclusion as you. My way of thinking (and reading code apparently) just clicks so very much better with typed languages.

(I hope no one reads my post and treats this as some kind of attack on Clojure/Lisp and s-exps. It's not. I'm just noting that the style just doesn't jive with certain types of people. And I gave it plenty of time (2 years as noted above) before coming to that realization.)