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There is something to be said about using all the special characters of the ASCII table in term of readability.

Looking forward languages that will start making good use of Unicode! I am actually surprised Greek letters haven’t made it already. Lots of computer scientists are mathematicians that are used to math papers looking like an Ancient Greek tablet.

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The Fortress programming language was a research project at Sun that incorporated mathematical notation.

See page 24 of http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/ts-5206-159453.pdf

They also had an ASCII-only representation for everything, so you could use a regular text editor if you wanted, kind of like Markdown.

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