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It really isn’t. Thousands of APL programmers read it perfectly well. I can’t read Japanese, but that doesn’t make it lacking in “readability”.
by skruger 5y ago
It really isn’t. Thousands of APL programmers read it perfectly well. I can’t read Japanese, but that doesn’t make it lacking in “readability”.
- rightbyte 5y agoYou could argue just that. Japanese is surely more difficult to learn to read with its mix of Japanese and Chinese symbols, then say Russian or Greek.
- celeduc 5y agoLanguages have varying costs of entry and mastery. The relative cost depends on what languages one already knows. But some language features are rarer and more difficult (declensions, conjugations, symbols, tones, etc). The size of the active vocabulary matters a great deal. But the availability of the language matters perhaps most of all.