Lisp, more than any other class of language, is what you make of it. Also, it is just as susceptible to the whims of culture as other languages (perhaps MORE so). Take the Clojure world, for example...
Because it is being used by a generation of programmers who cut their teeth on Rails and were frustrated by J2EE verbosity, popular Clojure code tends to be written such that APIs are quite readable and bereft of too much cleverness (the cleverness is usually hidden in the implementation of the API, rather than the interface).
Examples: Compujre, Ring, ClojureQL, Encanter, etc.
S-Expressions don't befuddle people. People befuddle people.
Because it is being used by a generation of programmers who cut their teeth on Rails and were frustrated by J2EE verbosity, popular Clojure code tends to be written such that APIs are quite readable and bereft of too much cleverness (the cleverness is usually hidden in the implementation of the API, rather than the interface).
Examples: Compujre, Ring, ClojureQL, Encanter, etc.
S-Expressions don't befuddle people. People befuddle people.