It looks that way, to many people, even in this thread.
> why don't they change the syntax to make it more readable?
They do, actually. Quite often at that. It's called releasing new version.
> Look! Computer programs are easy and intuitive and everyone can understand them, even without training! Make math like that!
No. Computer code is as far from intuitive as it can be. Nobody says otherwise. So you don't need to do anything to get there, the notation's good on that front (meaning: completely non-intuitive).
That's where the IDEs come in. And debuggers. And other tools. Lots of tools. They really help. You could use them, because the IDEs-for-math already exist. In college I had exactly one semester to familiarize myself with one of them, and it was never mentioned again until graduation.
> Do you really believe that math notation is deliberately designed to make it hard for people untrained in math to learn how to use it?
Why, do you believe it's not possible for it to be that way? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras#Prohibitions_and_re...
> Do you really believe that no one has tried to make it more accessible?
Why did they fail? (If they didn't - where's the exponential growth of first years' mathematicians in training)
> Do you really believe you know more about why math notation is what it is than mathematicians and trained mathematics educators do?
I'm 100% not interested in why it is like this, it's not my problem, so I really wouldn't know. Would you be interested in how at some point you had to write `class X(object):` and that it later changed to simply `class X:`? Would you go hunt on the mailing list to see who exactly came up with the idea? Or why they thought it would be better that way? Would you be interested in that if you just had to write a 10-lines of Python, to scrape some web site?
