Should a code be readable by human?

Little known fact about SmallTalk programming language.

The code written in SmallTalk should be able to be read aloud and it should make sense to a human.

This principle was championed by Alan Kay, along with the Smalltalk development team at Xerox PARC, during the 1970s.

The emphasis on human readability aligns with the vision of “programming as communication between humans and machines” rather than just issuing commands to computers. Alan Kay believed that programming languages should be clear, expressive, and close to natural human thought processes.

What do you think, was it a good idea?