Comment by MontyCarloHall
5 years ago
>People who can read this find it readable.
> I think it's a mistake to think that because you can't read the code, that it is the code that is somehow unreadable, instead of a language you simply haven't learned to read.
The same could be said about Brainfuck. With enough effort people can learn to read almost anything; that doesn’t mean that everything is equally readable.
Brainfuck is so simple that it is trivial to read. The problem there is a semantic one rather than a syntactic one, you cannot build any abstractions. J-style C has all the semantic expressiveness of C, and chooses a terse, but fairly uniform style.