> That strikes me as being pretty much the same as saying that English is only nice because you've been trained to believe it's nice, and why not write your language in Klingon instead?
There is a reason we don't program in English, and keep inventing new programming languages. English is poor and ill suited for the problem, even though it has enormous existing convention.
Nor do we program in infix math. But we write languages that use both infix math and bits of English where appropriate, because taking advantage of existing conventions helps a great deal.
We don't just use English to write software, but we DO use convention from English. In some sense, keywords like "f" and "j" are better-suited for expressing conditionals and loops because they are shorter to read and type. But I'm sure glad language designers settled on "if" and "for". The reason they did that is convention.
There is a reason we don't program in English, and keep inventing new programming languages. English is poor and ill suited for the problem, even though it has enormous existing convention.