> But isn't it possible to modernize the math syntax to use more descriptive names, variables and functions?
That's exactly what programming is. The issue is, programming languages do a lot of other things that are irrelevant to mathematics, and the syntax is so much more verbose that it doesn't make sense for pure math. You don't want control structures interrupting your train of thought every other line when trying to understand an equation, analogous to spaghetti code filled with gotos.
That's exactly what programming is. The issue is, programming languages do a lot of other things that are irrelevant to mathematics, and the syntax is so much more verbose that it doesn't make sense for pure math. You don't want control structures interrupting your train of thought every other line when trying to understand an equation, analogous to spaghetti code filled with gotos.