Anyway, IMO: there are more important things to worry about right now than Satoshi's code style. Such as building services that accept bitcoin.
This is
precisely what I'm trying to do. My main goal is to create Python bindings to bitcoin. I've tried to extract a library out of it (see
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2075.0 ) but I failed. I'm cleaning the code now because I see it as the only way to achieve my main goal.