[brudgers]

Cursive writing is and was less a criterion of literary and more a social signifier. It is an encoding that makes things less intelligible and the luxury of choosing a less intelligible form is a mark of social status, e.g. a doctor's prescription is stereotypically poorly penned but the social status disparity meant nurses, pharmacists and patients just had to deal with it.

Programming since the demise of Cobol has had a similar hermeneutic strand. Languages designed for intelligibility by ordinary persons are limited in expressibility and denigrated by the community of programmers, e.g. HTML isn't deemed a real programming language and its users aren't deemed programmers.

Even though HTML is one of the more directly applicable languages to ordinary school day tasks it is eschewed for real languages and the objective becomes making baubles rather than layering in a communication technique on ordinary tasks. HTML can be integrated into the curriculum. It's forgiving...system failure is in the eyes of the beholder not the god of Booleans. And most importantly, HTML is a rational extension of many Indo European languages as punctuation and annotation.