Maybe it is because of when you are doing this all day, you really don't see this anymore? I can read j/k just fine, as well as Haskell, but I find many imperative languages noisy and basically ugly and unreadable. I like things terse and as much as I can on 1 screen so I don't have to scroll or remember things (when you get older, remembering wtf something was called again gets pretty annoying; very strict static typing and defining types precisely (aka a zipcode or telephone number are not strings!) together with terse functional constructs help a lot; the IDE will know everything so you can focus on implementation).