> Mathematics is usually written in something like Haskell syntax
a good way to make something readable to the general public is to make the opposite of what a mathematician would do
a good way to make something readable to the general public is to make the opposite of what a mathematician would do
People tend to take it for granted that having very variable situation specific notation is bad but I don’t think it’s obviously true.
I certainly don’t think it’s obvious that programming language syntax should be based on the kind of high school algebra notation people are familiar with because that notation is mostly useful for manipulating sums of products of variables raised to powers, and one-argument functions thereof. I don’t think programming fits that category or that addition and multiplication are particularly important operations in programming.
Snarkiness aside, I do agree that a good number of mathematicians don't know how to write, but that does not mean that mathematical writing is intrinsically bad. We don't judge a random programming language as "bad," just because a random member of the public isn't able to parse it (since a random member of the public likely has not learned any programming, much less that language's syntax), so why would we apply similar statements to math in the same way?