Yes, but programming is more akin to copywriting than mathematical notation most of the time. Math has very well-defined, well-trod conventions that are densel

Yes, but programming is more akin to copywriting than mathematical notation most of the time. Math has very well-defined, well-trod conventions that are densely packed into the notation. When people try to write code like this though, it’s hard to read. All else equal, I’ll take a snippet of code with more characters in it but less work to unpack those characters. Reading linearly is cheap; I get tired reading formulas faster than reading technical prose. Precedence makes the mental parsing nonlinear.