Mathematics is shit

Just look at these ugly swatches of code:
http://www.cse.unt.edu/~idl99/Proceedings/ahn/img50.gif
http://www.cse.unt.edu/~idl99/Proceedings/ahn/node8.html

That is what you get, when programming immitates math. Even Java and PHP looks beautiful compared to that. Mathematics should be banned as a harmful and obfuscated teaching.

>>6
I could say the same thing about chinese characters, but that is only because I have not yet learned chinese. If I learned chinese, I'm sure I could read it as easily as anyone else.

>>8
You are missing his point. Your problem isn't with math itself, but with not taking the time to understand what the symbols mean. I'd have the same problem with chinese above. My inability to understand chinese writing isn't due to anything specific about chinese, but due to my lack of understanding of what the symbols mean and how the grammar works. It is an encoding that people use to communicate ideas to each other. Once you understand the encoding, you can read and construct in your mind the ideas they may be trying to communicate.