alt Hacker News>So he was in an era where the expectation was if you were typesetting a mathematical monograph you'd already be doing stuff like swapping the balls on your IBM typewriter for math symbols.
makes sense, maybe that would be more ergonomic to type for the public it targeted, indeed.
i won`t deny it is a stupid take of mine, but it makes me mad. i get the same feeling reading mathematical notations, so there is that.
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alt187 • today at 12:37 AM
To be fair, even after reading the other guy's post, I'm still mad about it. They even sell APL keyboards now. The indignity.
> i get the same feeling reading mathematical notations, so there is that
the natural habitat for encountering novel mathematical notation is while furiously handwriting your own lecture notes, trying to keep up with whatever never before seen hieroglyphics and squiggles that the professor is introducing on the fly while banging out the details of an alleged proof across the blackboard