find a very inspiring article: https://christophlocher.com/notes/notes-on-notation

Very interestingly presented too!

I studied hard-core physics for a few years. The idea of inventing notations for thinking about problem spaces was one of the first things I was taught. It appears to me, though, that this message has been lost on the programming community, where only one notation - function-based thinking (C, FP, Clojure, Haskell, Python, etc.) - continues to be strongly enbaubled instead of reaching for and inventing new notations. It seems to be firmly believed that the only way to create and to think about programs is to write them as “functions” (mathematical or bauble-full), as espoused by just about every modern programming language. The more baubles that are added to the original notion of Functional Programming (Lisp 1.5, Sector Lisp) the more we seem to peel away from the reality of how computers actually work (mutation, asynchronous concurrency, time based ordering and control flow)

A problem with programmers is that we want to turn our notations into programming languages. A virtue of a good notation as a tool for thought is that you choose to ignore some details, allow for some ambiguity. It's a natural programmer tendency to consider this laziness. I can imagine my 20 year younger self thinking exactly this.