What abomination of a syntax is that! What does [ and ] do? Why does the 2 go between the brackets? What does a[2] do? Is it making a function call? It is a sta

What abomination of a syntax is that! What does [ and ] do? Why does the 2 go between the brackets? What does a[2] do? Is it making a function call? It is a statement? An expression? Or some other magic? Why deliberately create such cryptic and confusing syntax? Why not simply (nth 2 obj) which tells clearly that this is a function call that picks the 2nd element in obj and returns it? Seriously though, arguing about syntax to criticize a language is such a trivial and banal activity that it detracts from any useful discussion about the true merits of a language, about its expressiveness, flexibility and paradigms it supports. Syntax is superficial (and Lisp has very little of it anyway). What syntax someone likes depends on what syntax they are familiar with. I am familiar with Lisp syntax (the very little there is of it) and C, C++, Python, Java, JavaScript, Go, Rust, APL, etc. and I find Lisp syntax the most intuitive and clear. You might find the C/Java syntax clearer and more intuitive. And that is why a discussion about syntax is superficial and pointless. Semantics and paradigms make much better topics of discussion when talking about programming languages.