We don't just use English to write software, but we DO use convention from English. In some sense, keywords like "f" and "j" are better-suited for expressing co

We don't just use English to write software, but we DO use convention from English. In some sense, keywords like "f" and "j" are better-suited for expressing conditionals and loops because they are shorter to read and type. But I'm sure glad language designers settled on "if" and "for". The reason they did that is convention.