> ...you would have to find a name for all the intermediate steps of an equation instead of simply doing... Trying to understand this. Do you mean the operator

> ...you would have to find a name for all the intermediate steps of an equation instead of simply doing... Trying to understand this. Do you mean the operators in your example (-, +, *, /) would need to be named? If so, I agree one-off terms wouldn't make it a great calculator substitute. In fact, you'd probably end up doing equations similar to the RPN on some HP calcs [0] to get the order of operations correct - minus the handy physical +, /, etc buttons. But for programming, wouldn't you either assign the parts or the whole of the term to a word? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation