> Nobody likes indentation at first, it is different. For what it's worth, I didn't have a programming background, and I liked Python's indentation right from the start. I was used to thinking in terms of indentation from writing and word processing documents with subordinate sections, so I found it very natural (and already had a well-developed tab finger). On the other hand, curly braces always have struck me as visual "clutter".
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