>This annoys a lot of computer programmers (and academics) who are inclined to the mathematical mindset and want quantitative answers instead.

I find many syntactical patterns that are considered elegant to be the opposite, and not as clear as mathematics, actually. For example, the the ternary operator mentioned in the article `return n % 2 === 0 ?'Even' : 'Odd;` feels very backwards to my human brain. It's better suited for the compiler to process the syntax tree rather than a human. A human mathematician would do something like this:

         ⎧  'Even' n mod 2 = 0
  f(n) = ⎨
         ⎩  'Odd'  n mod 2 ≠ 0

Which is super clear.