And it is not for all people.
But it's just a foreign language; You could look at Japanese text[0] and make similar statements, and would be just as valid (or rather, invalid) as your statement.
You expect to be able to read it because you're used to a class of languages which are all similar enough at the surface level -- perhaps you are even familiar with more than one fundamentally different classes, say, "lispish and algolish" or "germanic and latin". But that doesn't make APLish or Japanese[0] horrible.
This is just APL using C syntax.
[0] assuming, the proverbial you does not know Japanese