It's yet another case of people getting hung up on the first obviously different thing they notice about a language. If somebody is still griping about the par

It's yet another case of people getting hung up on the first obviously different thing they notice about a language. If somebody is still griping about the parens in Lisp, the significant whitespace in Python, the glyphs in APL, etc., they haven't gotten to the differences that actually make the language interesting - either they'll get used to it like the other X programmers (and realize it wasn't as big an issue as they thought), or they'll find deeper issues in the language design to complain about (and probably give up on it).