syntax doesn't make code beautiful, you can trust me on that one. I've seen beautiful C, lisp, erlang, js, asm, you name it. IMO the fanboy-ish nature of CS just screams naivety to me, kinda like when Ruby people think its syntax is "amazing", they all suck just in different ways :D haha if anything lisp is probably conceptually the most elegant
True, you can find ugly parts anywhere if you look hard enough. This however does not make everything the same. There is a huge difference if you encounter ugliness in every line you write or just in obscure cases. Syntax does matter.