"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

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You should try working with APL family of languages, dangling parens likely won't bother you after that.

The biggest downside to Python's popularity is the uber-fans' tendency to think it's a Good Idea to wreck other languages with significant whitespace. Like CoffeeScript.

So far I believe every such attempt has ultimately failed. Like CoffeeScript.

This seems to be a particularly execrable example of that phenomenon.