J has an almost explicit goal of being concise; it is specifically a feature they're reaching for, and thus makes sense to promote in such a fashion. But its a

J has an almost explicit goal of being concise; it is specifically a feature they're reaching for, and thus makes sense to promote in such a fashion. But its absurd to judge the language on its syntax, if the language is uninterested in the syntax, until its almost unnacceptably noisy or confounding. Looking into a language should ideally be first based on structural and semantic differences, and then syntactic. And a sufficiently semantically different language will offer little with its code snippets, as it wont make sense without understanding the paradigm. Even J; there's not much to take away other than that its dense from just the snippet. If anything, it mostly serves to scare people away as it approaches line noise, particularly when you don't yet know why it can be successful in such a fashion