The biggest advantage of the terse symbolic style for me comes when you wish to rapidly compare different ways (algorithms) to compute the same function. For in

The biggest advantage of the terse symbolic style for me comes when you wish to rapidly compare different ways (algorithms) to compute the same function. For instance, Kadane's Algorithm usually takes a dozen+ lines in an algoly language, which would normally be presented in some kind of syntax-coloured code block external to descriptive paragraphs; it takes a dozen- characters in an array language, and therefore variations can be included inline to text describing the alternatives.