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by abecedarius 4483 days ago
formal, correct, unambiguous terms

Unambiguous? I wish! The notation in most fields is way more ambiguous than code; you're expected to resolve the ambiguity by the norms of whatever research community it's for. Code isn't necessarily clear, but at least all the information is there to be decoded.

An example of trying to do better: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/boo...