My point is that any kind of formal notation using symbols can be used to write incomprehensible gibberish. That this is possible does not tell you much about the quality of the formal notation used. I would even say that it is a sign of a good notation that you can write incomprehensible gibberish, because this means that it is flexible enough and too constrained. A compact formal notation can be used to express complicated thing clearly that one can not easily express clearly otherwise. This is why mathematics also uses a lot of formulas and it also very easy to write mathematical formulas no one can understand anymore. But this is not the point, the point is that you can write mathematical formulas that can express complicated things well. IMHO C has a very good trade-off that lets you write complicated programs in a clear way. It should be judged on how well good C code looks and not how incomprehensible code is that intentionally misuses the notation.