Comment by city41

To not go absolutely insane with Lisps, you need some kind of parentheses tool with your editor such as ParEdit. The up side is once you get used to your tool, you can do really cool things and navigate/change code in higher level ways. But the massive downside (in my experience), is convincing coworkers to adopt a Lisp is practically impossible. The language itself being so foreign, and when they ask about the parentheses bringing up a tool they need to learn on top of the language is a double whammy.