Question for Non-Lispers

For non-lispers (who have at least some programming experience), please read this code and answer the questions.

1) Are you able to understand what the program is doing, step by step?
2) Do you find this syntax easier to read than lisp?
3) If this were a real programming language, would you consider learning and using it?

The following is the code in question:

let factorial
function :int(int n) {
        consider (1, 1) loop
        function :int(int i, int p) {
                if #(i <= n) {
                        :loop( #(i + 1), #(p * i) )
                } else {
                        p
                }
        }
}