It's unlikely to be your fault/disability, it's (mostly) them. The average designer of a programming language is a nerd sociopath. He optimizes things for _his

It's unlikely to be your fault/disability, it's (mostly) them. The average designer of a programming language is a nerd sociopath. He optimizes things for _his_ readability not the readability of his fellow nerds. Of course simple reasons like this are not appealing to the nerd crowd. They will hyper analyze everything including languages, and come up with exceedingly convoluted reasons as to why things are, the way they are, rather than settle for simple explanations