Take any piece of art (not fractals). Zoom in a lot. Can you appreciate its beauty now? Probably not.

Mandatory indenting is not a detail, but a very obvious thing. You don't need to use ord in Perl, but you do need to indent in Python. If you don't like ord, you can create a wrapper around it. If you don't like mandatory indenting, ...?

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }