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To people who say that notation doesn't matter, this is what all mathematics was like before we got our new better notation. I'd go as far as saying that in ma

To people who say that notation doesn't matter, this is what all mathematics was like before we got our new better notation. I'd go as far as saying that in mathematics little other than notation matters and the same is true in computer science. This is why lisp like languages are the obvious choice when variables are explicit.

tzs 2y ago
Chess was like that too. Consider a game where the first move was for white to move the knight that is closest to the white king to the square that is two squares forward and one square to the left of where the knight started. Here's how that move would have been written at various times from the 17th century to the present [1]. Early 1600s: The white king commands his owne knight into the third house before his owne bishop. Mid-1700s: K. knight to His Bishop's 3d. Early 1800s: K.Kt. to B.third sq. Around 1850: K.Kt to B's 3rd. Around 1860: K.Kt to B. 3d. Around 1870: K.Kt to B3. Around 1890: KKt-B3. Early 1900s: Kt-KB3. Mid 1900s: N-KB3. Last quarter of 1900s to present: Nf3 or if you want to avoid language-specific piece names ♘f3. [1] https://www.knightschessclub.org/the_history_of_notation.html https://www.knightschessclub.org/the_history_of_notation.htm...