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by exabrial 820 days ago
Completely agree with everything you said

Reminds me of reading music actually… many first time noob’s, mostly out of frustration, realize how sub optimal staff notation is and seek to write something better. In the end it’s ‘Good enough’ and accept it’s flaws because no rewrite has proven to be a 10x better solution.

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SQL seems to be the QWERTY of the data query world. It's far too entrenched.
... unless you're playing guitar, in which case tab notation works way better ;)
More like Tab + already knowing the song.:)