Maybe, but I don't think that's where the OP was going. My understanding of the OP was that instead of, say using the large S symbol to mean integral, why not

Maybe, but I don't think that's where the OP was going. My understanding of the OP was that instead of, say using the large S symbol to mean integral, why not use this type of notation: integrate(start, end, function) Of course, I can think of a few problems with this. The large 'S' symbol is understood by everybody, regardless of their language, is one advantage of symbols that comes immediately to mind.