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No. Languages are also, of course, languages, i.e., notation. If every chemist changed notation every 3 years, there's an off chance that one might develop so
by ken 8y ago
No. Languages are also, of course, languages, i.e., notation.
If every chemist changed notation every 3 years, there's an off chance that one might develop something better than Hill notation, but it would also make it unbearable to try to read the literature. I don't think it's controversial to suggest that this would be a net loss for the field.
Computer science is young enough that we don't have any universal notation yet, but I've learned a couple dozen programming languages and my conclusion is that maybe 1 new language per decade is worth using. We're churning notation way faster than is productive.