[agumonkey]

You're annoyed to the point of overreaction I'd say. I assume julia's devs use symbols that are culturally set already. Not just random glyphs for no good reason.

I've seen this in math, I come the dev land around java peak, where it was a holy trait to write runComputationThatIsMaybeSafeOverArguments(...), because that's where they though information was. In math they lived in the opposite side of things.. names were few and concision was more important. Also structural thinking made names really unimportant, mostly redundancy and waste of time, the domain and properties were.

I may be wrong though.