What's old is new again - see SQL and COBOL. They certainly are easy to get the gist of from the words even if you don't know the language. (The business logic

What's old is new again - see SQL and COBOL. They certainly are easy to get the gist of from the words even if you don't know the language. (The business logic may be spaghetti in a COBOL program, but what's happening is clear.) I like it, and I remember SQL easier after disuse than the syntax of something else I've used equally sparsely like bash scripting. Then on the opposite end of the spectrum wrt new things, we have Rust, which comes off to me as pathologically terse and inscrutable - certainly much more difficult for a newbie to parse than SQL.