To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is:
Composable Shareable Degrabable Learnable Semantic Grammatical Efficiently expressive Suggestive Intentional Legible I can’t quite tell whether I’m trying to force together two concepts (notation and user interface) which are fundamentally different, or whether there is something fruitful in seeing them as aspects of the same thing.
Collecting my thoughts about notation and user interfaces (Interconnected)
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