no, it wasn't your choice how you were taught to read and write something like this:

1|2*3>>4+5

in C and k, this expression should hopefully evaluate to 1, but this is just a lucky coincidence: reading and writing these two expressions are wildly different in complexity in those two languages. if you're not sure what i mean, ask your local LLM to explain why that is, but make sure you're sitting down. what you'll discover is that what you think you "simply chose to do" is not what you're actually doing.

while it is true that you can write code anyway you deem fit, i'm afraid you're a bit confused about the actual direction you're forced to think you chose to write it.

but once you're there, it suddenly gets a lot less complicated, and - miraculosly - doesn't cancel out or mess up your previous beliefs and habits.

k/q, of apl heritage, are beautiful - first and foremost because they're simple to write and simple to read.