Comment by Buttons840

Imagine something like Go and APL compile down to the same AST, and imagine two programmers working on the same project with different syntaxes as you describe. The Go user one day finds a function called "life" that contains several hundred lines of code, which is clearly bad style and should be broken up, so he goes to talk to his APL using coworker who wrote the function. His coworker seems confused, "it doesn't seem too long to me" he says as he shows the APL function on his screen:

  life←{↑1 ⍵∨.∧3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵}

I think what you proposed is a good idea, but it's just an idea. We'd need some new innovation to make it work I think.