As for your code, urgh. A mathematician would carefully define what the function and operands are and the domain of each. More, and I'm vasty simplifying here as I don't have LaTeX available. I don't know what your code does so I've invented some words.
Let f(x,y) represent the rate of change of doodads where x is the number of doodads and y is the amount of doodads per gronk.
f(x,y) = ( x^2 + y^2 ) ^ (1/2)
The code is unclear because it has single-letter variables instead of names, exacerbated by being in Greek, which mathematicians reached for because they were using single-letter variables, and ran out of them, and weren't bold or imaginative enough to break from convention. Then they used up the best of the Greek letters too and moved on to things like Gothic. This is stupid.
k'(x)=(g(x)f'(x)-f(x)g'(x))/(g(x)^2
quotient'(expression)=(left_expression(expression)right_expression'(expression)-right_expression(expression)left_expression'(expression))/(left_expression(expression)^2
Surprisingly I've just gone through the last 30 pages of mathematical work I've done and there's a couple of π in ∫ there and that's it.
To have it his way, you'd right:
(derivative(right_expression))(expression)
and so on.
Clear as mud!
Perhaps he's a LISP programmer and has some spare brackets floating around :-)
Set theory has aleph א and beth ℶ which are refreshingly not Greek but Hebrew letters.
ls, man, wc, ps, grep, …
instead of
list, manual, word count, process(es?), <actually, what the hell does that stand for again>, ….
You get used to it, and then it’s much quicker. And being able to write things down quickly is very important when you’re in flow.
The real problem is, everybody else will complain, because its unconventional. Then you look foolish.
Shorthand is better.
You know when you go to a foreign country, ask for a particular thing in a restaurant proudly in their language that you picked up on Duolingo the week before and the waiter starts talking to you quickly in their language and you lose it completely.
We are just that waiter. You didn't learn the language or get the prerequisite skills. So do that or don't bother. It's not easy and there are no shortcuts.
So much more readable! /s
You try handwriting all of your code and let's see how long until you start abbreviating everything.
Mathematical notation is all abbreviations. We used to write mathematics without abbreviations. It was absolutely horrid. Try reading some 13th century mathematics, translated to your language (e.g. Fibonacci https://archive.org/details/laurence-sigler-fibonaccis-liber... ), and see how much of it you understand without the benefit of symbolic notation. We would even write aaa instead of a^3.
The point with mathematical notation is that it can all be sounded out and it's extremely general and abstract. Generally, x is not a measurement, a quantity with a unit, a meaningful anything. It's just a number, and x is a better name than front_server_count or whatever thing you're programming about.