To me your comment makes a lot of sense. But you have a visceral feel (that comes from practice) for how useful such notation can be. For people who don't, the cultural stretch is probably just too far to consider.
No doubt even a visionary like Iverson found it difficult to withstand decades of almost-universal criticism about the APL symbol set.
The APL guy in the video remarks wryly at one point that Unicode has made their lives much easier. I'll bet it has!
The analogy to music notation is suggestive. Imagine if people insisted on writing music textually with names like "High C Sharp" or whatever - on the grounds that this was more "readable"!
No doubt even a visionary like Iverson found it difficult to withstand decades of almost-universal criticism about the APL symbol set.
The APL guy in the video remarks wryly at one point that Unicode has made their lives much easier. I'll bet it has!
The analogy to music notation is suggestive. Imagine if people insisted on writing music textually with names like "High C Sharp" or whatever - on the grounds that this was more "readable"!