How can anyone think that deciding on expressions of computation should be done by committee? Imagine mathematicians were to get together to agree on standardized terminology for papers - what a waste of time it would be!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=733265
But don't take that as enthusiasm for committees.
'''I happen to think mathematics would be ... as well as the tools available to render those notations.
Committees degrade into uselessness when the discussion degrades into warring over features. Everyone has a pet feature, and nobody lets their pet feature go.
When you have a stated goal of minimalism (for at least part of the greater thing you're trying to define), then the argument to include this or that can be a /logical/ one based on whether it is actually /required/.
And one would think that implementing math is easy ;)