For that matter, use self-documenting names in math, too. And please don't recycle notation for completely unrelated concepts, even if they are in different fie

For that matter, use self-documenting names in math, too. And please don't recycle notation for completely unrelated concepts, even if they are in different fields. Coming to math from computing, the only explanation I can come up with for the disaster that is mathematical notation is that mathematicians are universally sadomasochists.