""I like to tell everybody that The Matrix's code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes," says Whiteley, a production designer from England who's now based at the Animal Logic animation and visual-effects studio in Sydney. He scanned the characters from his wife's Japanese cookbooks." https://www.cnet.com/news/lego-ninjago-movie-simon-whiteley-...
So writing top-to-bottom Japanease might add more information density. And using a programming language that doesn't require brackets or spaces.