maybe you were alluding to it with "all those lovely parentheses," but my number one reason for loving clojure (and other lisps in the past) is structural editing. In every non-sexp-based language, I find myself forgetting things in the extra time it takes to make a change. I think I'll write my own "why clojure?" post soon; biff will certainly make the list 😉

Yeah, structural editing is great 🙂. And every time I have to write much javascript I'm reminded about how even just the auto-indent you get in lisp is so much nicer than the usual