When reading Scheme code for Chicken Scheme packages I find myself thinking – “So this is why Lisp is unpopular, it really is the parentheses!”

I am not experienced reading Lisp code, but I find the many levels of indentation and the abundance of parentheses overwhelming. I don’t know if this is the case with Common Lisp code.

In Chicken Scheme however, parentheses are interchangable with other brackets – so you can add visual cues through your style if you don’t care much about portability.