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I'd love to see how Clojure compares, as it uses fewer parentheses and may even be competitive to, eg, Java in its use of parentheses.

As an aside, its interesting (to me, as a Colemak user) that all of the hot alphabetic characters in all the analyzed languages are on the home row of the Colemak layout (except L, which seems to be kind of hot in C++).

I actually pasted a Clojure file from a project I'm working on into the heatmap.js page and found that my home row was yellow/red, the parentheses were green and everything else was blue. So yes, parentheses are not as used in Clojure as in Common Lisp (and again colemak is awesome for keeping things on the home row!)

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