To add to this, there are extremely limiting languages like Toki Pona[0]. To construct complex ideas it relies heavily on combining words. But that's also a characteristic we see in most languages, especially in German and Chinese.
The only difference I see is that we don't speak C++ (though you could argue that sometimes we do). Mostly because it is pretty laborious and not worth the effort when we have a common tongue (pun intended) between us.
Spoken languages were created to communicate. They advanced to allow us to convey complex and highly abstract ideas. I wouldn't say programming languages were constructed with the same intent (at least they are intended to be interpreted by a computer, not by a human).
I always wonder why anyone would bother with pictograms for a new language. The Latin alphabet is just a bunch of strokes that can be trivially written in cursive. When you consider all the awful writing systems that exist around the world the Latin alphabet appears to be near perfect. Toki Pona is just adding one entry on the list of languages with awful writing systems.
Chinese is pretty efficient as a language. I think there are things that are more obvious in traditional though. There are advantages and disadvantages to each. But beware self bias because you (I'm assuming) grew up with an alphabet based language.
The only difference I see is that we don't speak C++ (though you could argue that sometimes we do). Mostly because it is pretty laborious and not worth the effort when we have a common tongue (pun intended) between us.
Spoken languages were created to communicate. They advanced to allow us to convey complex and highly abstract ideas. I wouldn't say programming languages were constructed with the same intent (at least they are intended to be interpreted by a computer, not by a human).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona