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i've only seen these style of languages commented after a contest is over on stack programming challenges. I have no idea how one would learn all this stuff from code in the wild (like i learned most of python, for example). then again, i don't go searching github for k, apl, or perl for that matter.

I'm sure each of those languages makes some guarantee about the sorts of errors that can be introduced - as opposed to C (let me pick on it) where the errors you know you can introduce, and the errors that are introduced aren't a large union. However i have a hard enough time typing english consistently, so the various "symbol-y" languages just glaze my eyes, unfortunately.

It almost "feels" like these languages are an overreaction to the chestnut "they must get paid by LoC".