Comment by yorwba

The syntax is slightly cumbersome. For example, the function header of the mandelbrot snippet at https://wenyan-snippets.netlify.com/ reads:

吾有一術。名之曰「曼德博」。欲行是術。必先得二數。曰「寬」。曰「高」。乃行是術曰。

Decomposed:

吾有一術。I have a function.

名之曰「曼德博」。 Named "mandelbrot".

欲行是術。必先得 Who wants to run this function, must first get

二數。two numbers.

曰「寬」。Called "width".

曰「高」。Called "height"

乃行是術曰。 Then run this function as follows:

Essentially, what gets expressed using punctuation in mainstream programming languages is instead described by a short sentence. This would be terribly verbose in English, but it's kind of bearable in Classical Chinese, because each word is only a single character.