So let me get this straight...You are mainly a software developer who has an issue with math notation that is meant for mathematicians? Could it perhaps be that you haven't taken enough math to become in tune with how it's done/studied/read?
I come from the other direction. I studied math first. And yes, at first I had an issue with the long variable/function names. But soon enough I realized that programming is done quite differently than math. With IDEs and autocompletion, long variable names are not really a problem.
One could argue that variable names should be descriptive in programming, because there is a lot more reading involved. Whereas in math, there is a lot more writing/doing involved. I might manipulate a math variable name 1000 times in my head in the process of working on a problem. I might even WRITE it down that many times! In programming, I might READ a variable name 1000 times in debugging.
I agree. As someone who has done mathematics research, and studied on the purest end of the math spectrum, it's so aggravating to hear engineers who "took BOTH differential equations classes" explain how math should be when they clearly don't know what they're talking about.
