This is dead on, IMHO. I mean, we joke about some language, company, or product being fetishistically backwards compatible, but we've got nothing on music, whic

This is dead on, IMHO. I mean, we joke about some language, company, or product being fetishistically backwards compatible, but we've got nothing on music, which is somehow backwards compatability obsessed, but also not actually backwards compatable, because note frequencies have slipped, and most people only know a tiny subset of the actual notation. Math is even worse. It's syntax piled on top of syntax. It's actually evil.