It's as reader hostile as mathematics symbol is reader hostile. It's not English, it's not meant to be read like a novel but to be read and understood like mat

It's as reader hostile as mathematics symbol is reader hostile. It's not English, it's not meant to be read like a novel but to be read and understood like mathematics. One of the frustrating thing about programming in English like languages is that words might not mean what they claim to mean. Written language is very ambiguous. Nothing from stoping me from writing something as not_true = true; if (not_true) { ... }. or calling something manager or a process when it's neither. Easy to read and pronounce but harder to digest. The idea of APL is that once you understand the symbol like maths, it's unambiguous, if you can parse it, you can understand. There's no crazy naming to confuse you.