There are other languages that operate within the same paradigm, such as J, which do not make use of the specialized symbols and so are somewhat more accessible

There are other languages that operate within the same paradigm, such as J, which do not make use of the specialized symbols and so are somewhat more accessible. /u/Godspiral is a Reddit user who moderates the /r/DailyProgrammer sub, and he occasionally posts solutions to the challenges in J [0]. It's still plenty difficult to read, as you'd expect haha. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/7t6fnc/20180126_challenge_348_hard_square_sum_chains/dtacdqi/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/7t6fnc/201... (This is just the most recent non-trivial example I could find of his.)