If you think that's bad, try learning python or a verbose language while not speaking english, all of these words like while, for, if, else, break are just gibberish and your code just reeks of some weird mish mash of broken english and broken <mother tongue>, I have a hypothesis that terseness favors universality, if you don't speak english, something like $_ is equal or easier to grasp, it honestly just looks like terse and weird math.
That was the idea of APL (and its successors like J and K) -- make programming a math notation rather than pretend to be a human language (generally English, but there have been programming languages with keywords in Chinese and Russian, among others).
I'd love to use APL if it wasn't pay to use, or just, an absolute pain to install, there's also j, but I find it worse to use single letter names for functions, ivy seems like the best of both worlds.