You'd be surprised. I'm more familiar with k (kona) than J, but many of those seemingly inscrutable blocks of punctuation become recognizable as a unit pretty q

You'd be surprised. I'm more familiar with k (kona) than J, but many of those seemingly inscrutable blocks of punctuation become recognizable as a unit pretty quickly. You can, of course, break huge expressions like that apart and name the chunks. kona: https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona A free implementation of a k3.2-like language. There are equally strange patterns that you are probably used to. For example, I see stuff like PORTB &=~(1<<3); when doing embedded development. That's C, and unlike in J, in C I have to also keep track of order of operations.