"Forest of parens" can be intimidating for sure, but if it's really a forest, then it usually means there's too much nesting. Which is a problem for any languag

"Forest of parens" can be intimidating for sure, but if it's really a forest, then it usually means there's too much nesting. Which is a problem for any language/syntax. Overnested Python code is hard to grasp, and wide fields of whitespaces doesn't make it better than deep forests of parens/curlies, or mounting slabs of begin/end pairs.