There are examples of far worse languages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#Exa...

At least the Hello World example is readable...

Incidentally, that obscure "iota" name that OP was complaining about came about by way of APL (which of course used an actual Greek letter to write it).

Actually I'd prefer greek letter. At first I read iota as itoa which is also a thing.

I always love watching that incredible old APL demo [1], though. Seems incredibly futuristic for the time!

edit: this is actually a different demo, but there's a similarly impressive one focused on showing APL, from the 70s I think? Will update if I find it!

[1] - https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY

IIRC, APL even has its own keyboard (to type the code)