> though for the record, I've seen more nested parenthesis/braces in JS code than I've seen in a lot lisp code

I saw a presentation once, where they compared the amount of parenthesis/braces in mainstream languages vs Lisp, with Lisp having less in most algorithms being compared.

For example,

    func_call(args) vs (func_call args)
    array_access[index] vs (array_access index)

The thing is, since in other languages parenthesis/braces tend to be scattered along the source file, it looks like less than Lisp based languages.