do people really complain about significant whitespace?

[Ed Jensen]

infidel <saint.infidel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Where are they-who-hate-us-for-our-whitespace?  Are "they" really that
> stupid/petty?  Are "they" really out there at all?  "They" almost sound
> like a mythical caste of tasteless heathens that "we" have invented.
> It just sounds like so much trivial nitpickery that it's hard to
> believe it's as common as we've come to believe.

I like Python, but I do wish it used braces instead, if only because
every editor I'm likely to use supports brace matching, which makes it
easy to (for example) jump to the bottom or top of a block.