Uniform, well defined programming language notation has been proposed in 1958 by Kenneth Iversion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) http

Uniform, well defined programming language notation has been proposed in 1958 by Kenneth Iversion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) It goes farther than suggest in the article by dropping words entirely and using symbol, which removes the "need to use English" barrier which is invisible to people whose mother tongue is English but is most definitely there. It gets treated with a SEP-field by most of the programming community. The problem is not that objectively "X is a barrier to entry" (for whatever X is). The problem is that everyone has their level of comfort with something they consider natural and everything else needs to be simplified. But that something has a huge variance and unclear mean/median/mode.