Having learned Mandarin, I can tell you that giving up because of the way it is written would be a perfectly sensible thing to do. However, we are comparing ap

Having learned Mandarin, I can tell you that giving up because of the way it is written would be a perfectly sensible thing to do. However, we are comparing apples and oranges. Learning any language takes years, Mandarin a few more. The syntax of a programming language takes a few days at worst. When someone invents a programming language where each of 30,000 library methods is a unique character that must be memorized separately, I'll be prepared to grant your point.