You know your text annoys me? Although the author is off the point, you continue the trend, and you're exactly as much correct as the author is.
Lisp syntax is just a notation for lists. Lisp implementations process those lists.
Any syntax which is a notation for something generic quite much makes sure that most changes into the compiler does not ripple into the parser. They make it easier to experiment with your compiler design because you're not changing parsing rules all the time. And changing parser code tends to be error prone and take lot of time, even when you're using parser generators.
Lisp syntax is just a notation for lists. Lisp implementations process those lists.
Any syntax which is a notation for something generic quite much makes sure that most changes into the compiler does not ripple into the parser. They make it easier to experiment with your compiler design because you're not changing parsing rules all the time. And changing parser code tends to be error prone and take lot of time, even when you're using parser generators.