Only worse languages win, because people are masochochists, but throwing away this possible user base is always a win.
Normal people prefer REBOL, but timing and licensing choices...
> throwing away this possible user base is always a win.
Ok, then.
That is something very similar they may had in high school.
I always thought math notation was atrocious to the point of discouraging me from the subject. Who knows, had mathematics used saner (simpler, consistent, perhaps slightly more verbose) notation, I might've been better at it.
If mathematics notation were as terrible, horrible ad you say, wouldn’t mathematicians have changed it by now?
For example, we can't write $e^{-\frac{x}{2}}$ because the minus and the bar of the fraction may not be clearly separated. Also x and 2 will be too small. A solution is to use \dfrac to make them bigger, but the 2D structure of the formula will make the e and 2 be too close and confusing. After some year of trying, one of my coworkers insisted in using $e^{-x/2}$ that is ugly but copy-machine-poof.
We also need huge integrals for $\int_0^7\dfrac{1}{1+x^2}\ dx$. The standard one is too small. I tried to write a macro for that, but the 0 and the 7 must be in weird positions. Also, there are too many cases, because the limits may be missing. Finally, we are using https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bigints with some tiny macro to rename it to \lint because I don't like the names the author used.
The math notation is very good to write in dead tree paper with a pencil in 2D, but in 1D with a keyboard or automatic processing is horrible.
Let me disagree! The type is always one, Number (not Int or Float).