[burfog]

Fixing the notation would be great, saving numerous future generations from confusion.

Getting agreement to do this is difficult. Short of laying it down in the law as part of a treaty (throw it in with WTO or Berne copyright?) there doesn't seem to be a way to make the change happen. Nobody wants to buy the calculus book with weird non-standard notation. It would be like a trigonometry book with the symbols Feynman invented in high school.

We're more likely to get serious mathematicians calling equations "math sentences".