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[–] DarkenLM@kbin.earth 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mathematics themselves are essentially tons of symbols that people have to learn, tbf.

I personally never had any trouble looking at the negation operator, and find the .not() postfix cumbersome.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair, mathematics also uses single-character variable names

[–] DarkenLM@kbin.earth 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

~~Laughs~~ Cries in engineering

[–] dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 days ago

actually names his variables "x, y, z, etc etc" when coding