[jdminhbg]

> The fact that so many software developers "don't like math" is ironic, because they're perfectly happy to manipulate symbols such as "x", "file", or "user_id" that stand in for other things every day.

`user_id` says what it is; something like `β` does not. It's more like reading minified JavaScript than literate programming. Math notation is frequently horribly overloaded and needlessly terse.