the state of the art

C sucks. how about a stdlib that doesn't encourage buffer overflows

c++ sucks. operator overloading?? templates??? what were you smoking bjarne!

c# sucks. it was made by microsoft. nuff said.

perl sucks. having your two year old kid design the syntax just isn't a good idea

phyton sucks. self.this self.that and a retarded community

ruby sucks. "it's OOP so it must be good!" suck my cock

lisp sucks. the syntax is so retarded nobody uses it despite it having some good ideas

ml sucks. does anyone even know what ml is?

haskell sucks. once in a while i'd like to have a mutable variable that doesn't require a phd in cs to use!

java just plain sucks.

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the programming INDUSTRY sucks because you're all a bunch of cocks that were too stupid or narrowminded to study some worthwile natural science

>>52
When it comes to Common Lisp's syntax, it's still trivial (and modifiable - read macros which you've already shown a few examples of). Everything, including the parens are done using read macros, which is nice, simple and uniform:

CL-USER> (get-macro-character #\()
#<FUNCTION SB-IMPL::READ-LIST>
NIL

Lisp's semantics on the on the other hand can be quite rich and complex compared to other languages.