I guess programmers can mean different things with "easy to read", but to me it means "easy to understand by reading". This in turn has two aspects: How complex

I guess programmers can mean different things with "easy to read", but to me it means "easy to understand by reading". This in turn has two aspects: How complex the meaning is, and how clearly the syntax express this underlying meaning. The fallacy of AppleScript is to think that a syntax which looks familiar on the surface makes the semantics esier to understand. But since the underlying semantics are those of a programming language, not human-to-human communication, the syntax obscures the meaning. So to me "easier to read" and "simpler to use" both depends on the ergonomics of the programming model and the syntax used.