> It all adds up.
If that's true, I would expect logographic writing systems to cause less reader fatigue than alphabetic writing system. But as far as I'm aware that isn't the case, and the two are roughly equivalent.
As far as I know, Chinese speakers read texts on average faster than English speakers
One of the most readable languages that I've ever seen is XQuery, which is also very verbose, and prefers keywords over punctuation.
It all adds up. Languages like COBOL, PASCAL or ADA (originally designed for terminals with very limited character sets, sometimes even lacking lowercase text - thus requiring case-insensitive syntax) make it a lot harder to survey larger code blocks.