> No, it doesn't, because written language explicitly marks ends, and sometimes also begginings, of structural units (programming gets brackets from natural lan

> No, it doesn't, because written language explicitly marks ends, and sometimes also begginings, of structural units (programming gets brackets from natural language), it doesn't just use white space (until you get to units bigger than sentences.) Written language does of course use white space to separate words (this was not always the case, see for example classical Latin). And I think it's fair to say that a line of Python is roughly equivalent to a sentence, and whitespace indentation is only used for syntax at that level. The analogy breaks down a bit at higher levels, as Python blocks can recurse, but in writing we have structures like chapters, books, etc.