I believe that's the pseudocode format? I grew up in physics before the web took off and am now teaching myself bioinformatics, transcribing problem statements and pseudocode into working python.
There's several hundred years of pencil and paper math where these forms developed natively, unconstrained by $MY_KEYBOARD, which offers a far more limited range of expression. I am quite grateful for LaTeX, but I also understand the utility of suppressing that degree of expressiveness in code, where getting the point down quickly with a few more keys is a reasonable trade for the power of the machine that $MY_KEYBOARD interacts with.
Personally, I find iPython's web notebook to be an amazing environment.
I believe that's the pseudocode format? I grew up in physics before the web took off and am now teaching myself bioinformatics, transcribing problem statements and pseudocode into working python.
There's several hundred years of pencil and paper math where these forms developed natively, unconstrained by $MY_KEYBOARD, which offers a far more limited range of expression. I am quite grateful for LaTeX, but I also understand the utility of suppressing that degree of expressiveness in code, where getting the point down quickly with a few more keys is a reasonable trade for the power of the machine that $MY_KEYBOARD interacts with.
Personally, I find iPython's web notebook to be an amazing environment.