Comment by why218

I think that the vast majority of people who complain that these languages are unreadable and who insinuate that people who use and like them are basically just showing off are fundamentally uninterested in the possibility that there are possible positive trade offs to this style but for those who are genuinely interested in why some people like to program this way: Imagine having to do math with no symbols. that means 1+1 is now one plus one. Now imagine having to do that in the context of graduate levels mathematics. I am quite sure nobody calls a2+b2=c2 unreadable as compared to a squared plus b squared equals c squared and I dont know any one who wants to do algebra that way. Well the same principle is why array programmers like this style. I dont expect you to take my word for it im just letting you know what these other weird crazy people see in array languages that you dont. This allows one to think faster and further than they could encumbered but a heavier syntax. Is this way of programming the best no. Should everyone learn it no. Are there trade offs yes. Is it worth your time, quite possibly not. But thats true about literally everything in programming.