> > I also find C# code very ugly compared to both Python and Haskell. On the visual level, the mandatory use of braces everywhere [...] makes code contain a lo

> > I also find C# code very ugly compared to both Python and Haskell. On the visual level, the mandatory use of braces everywhere [...] makes code contain a lot of line noise and empty space, and combined with the verbosity of the libraries and type declarations etc, you find that a page of C# hardly does anything. > Learn two or three more languages and you'll find that this visual clutter hardly matters. What's important is how much can you do with the same amount of statements and expressions (I find Paul Graham's proposition that this is related to the count of AST nodes appealing). I would agree that if you follow the official Microsoft C# style conventions, you end up with some ugly looking, noisy code. I am not a fan of sticking opening braces on their own line, or forcing a newline between closing braces and else, catch, finally keywords. It is just a waste of too much vertical space, for questionable benefit.