This trade-off is also why I love Lisp. Although you can easily write something totally incomprehensible, people well versed in Lisp manage to be very expressive with a very powerful language. Of course lisp macros are the key.

It's extremely easy to do LOP with Lisp thanks to s-expressions (all those parenthesis :). But you can be much more expressive with LOP.

EDIT: elaborating