My view is that Lisps have very a simple syntax, achieved at the cost of moving a fair amount of error checking until runtime. If you ignore reader macros, you can tell if a Clojure expression is well- formed by just keeping a count of open parentheses, which is about the least amount of state that a parser could theoretically have. On the downside, you can't tell until runtime whether a given function call has an acceptable arity, which pretty much any other popular language can check at edit-time.
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