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by robocat 1892 days ago
Every programming language overloads the same few ASCII non-alpha-numeric characters to have multiple meanings. A colon : can mean multiple things in most computer languages, or it gets combined. Even a symbol like less-than < gets extremely different meanings depending upon context: comparison, template, XML, << operator (bonus if overloaded), <- operator (ugggh mixed with minus for bonus confusion) etcetera.

I think saying programming languages are better than Mathematics is just due to your familiarity.