/sci/ - Science & Math

allow me to make another comparison
here we have traditional music notation vs piano roll
tradional notation is symbols that denote meaning in a way that is not intutitive
one must memorize the shapes and little extra accents etc
it is highly influenced by its history of accumulated incremental additions
it is optimized for compactness at the expense of losing the simple bar length = note length relationship
traditional notation is cryptic and difficult to master for many, much like traditional math notation
so in practice we must adapt to the future and adopt the simple intuitive approach
the piano roll wins (or it's guitar equivalent, the guitar tab) and so too will simple instructions in the common language of the day and time
which is currently simple english, some traditional arithmetic symbols, a few custom additions to make it pseudocode with functions, and boom, a universal language of the mathematical future
a lowest common denominator of meaning that is turing complete