Right, but the point is you could pick almost any arbitrary language, show some basic examples, and people would be able to read it. For example, take someone w

Right, but the point is you could pick almost any arbitrary language, show some basic examples, and people would be able to read it. For example, take someone who's never seen Lua and show them the exact same set of examples written in Lua, and they'd be able to answer the same questions. Hell, you could probably do it with Haskell too, even though nobody would ever pretend that you could "Learn you a Haskell in 0 minutes".