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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

write-only language

   A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and
   bizarre that any routine of significant size is automatically
   write-only code.  A sobriquet applied occasionally to C and
   often to APL, though INTERCAL and TECO certainly deserve
   it more.


The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

write-only language
 n.

    A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that
    any routine of significant size is automatically write-only code. A
    sobriquet applied occasionally to C and often to APL, though INTERCAL and
    TECO certainly deserve it more. See also Befunge.