>No question about it. Mathematical notation is pure evil that should be cast into mount doom and then some. This sort of juvenile over-the top hyperbole is ge

>No question about it. Mathematical notation is pure evil that should be cast into mount doom and then some. This sort of juvenile over-the top hyperbole is getting pretty boring now. Can you present your criticisms like a normal person instead of calling technical things you don't like "terrible and evil"? Especicially when you say (imo) ridiculous statements like "maths is not hard, it's the notation that's hard". Notation is, most of the time, trivial compared to the concepts they represent. Funny you should give "matmul(a,b)" as an example, that would be a pretty atrocious way to write mathematics. Imagine writing "equals( matmul(S,matmul(A,inv(S))) , A)" rather than "SAS⁻¹ = A". Which do you think most clearly represents the concept at hand? The "overloading" that you complain so much about, it actually illuminates the fact that the underlying concept of "scalarmul(a,b)" and "matmul(A,B)" is the same. Going even one step further, Einstein notation: a development purely of notation, that makes dealing with tensor algebra a million times more clear. I swear I don't understand this line of reasoning. EDIT: I'll go out on a limb here: you're a programmer, not a mathematician, so you tend to look at these things from the prism of a programmer, not a mathematician. When all you have is a hammer...