[mbeex]

As a mathematician by training - even with a now almost full career in professional software development - it's simply one of the handful of levels of abstraction I like to switch between. Much more concise then than usual code. I did all these things, massaging bits down to machine code, designing systems on the other end. Math has its place there, and if the toolbox supports it, I'll consider....

I remember that one of the first things I did when learning C++ was to implement a matrix library, operator overloading and all (oh, how naive when it comes to getting it right!).