I'm doing Clojure in the evenings. Every morning the first things I type in my Java programs are surrounded in parens and I have to backup and try again.

me too

Syntax error? Why is that? 😄

I have less problems with parens than with lack of semicolons. If I write some Ruby, Javascript or Haskell (list and tuple elements are comma separated) after doing Clojure I just get inexplicable syntax errors.

call.something(:why no "parens Luke")

Yeah syntax. I immediately do (if ... and Android Studio complains.

I find myself trying to use parentheses at a zsh prompt. (ls -tr)

Heh.

that's what we need, a lisp shell

It appears there are some - http://lush.sourceforge.net/, http://www.cliki.net/Lisp%20as%20a%20shell, http://scsh.net/

https://github.com/alandipert/gherkin