I guess one core thing is that I don't think that the traditional mathematical notation is particularly consistent. (For a reference, I published over a dozen m

I guess one core thing is that I don't think that the traditional mathematical notation is particularly consistent. (For a reference, I published over a dozen mathematical papers.) I love when the "data-flow" is consistent, from left to right. The Julia code (and traditional mathematical notation) reads: middle, right, left. Plus, instead of inventing infix notation, I find it cleaner to write custom methods/functions rather than rely on (a fixed, limited, and non-apparent) set of built-in inflix operators. Made-up .^