In keeping with the discussion here a few days ago, this article demonstrates exactly my point about developer types not being the target for computational codes. Their interpolation routine looks extremely verbose already, I cannot imagine them attempting to solve or compute any other more complex formula like that beyond a mere 2d interpolator writing so verbosely like that. The result would be unreadable, to my eyes.
Modern fortran has a bit more modern flavour to it, but formulae being so verbose would make the "formula" aspect of a code disappear.
Math or engineering people do not have problems with short symbol names, that's it. Also our formulas are complex. If you wrote out many of our formulas with long descriptive variable names the structure and relation between the variables would no longer be readable, there would be many more mistakes.
We were educated doing these things on paper with pages and pages of math with these symbols.
20 years later I can still read just this fortran code and guess most of what's going on with no context needed.
I have problems reading "developer code" that boil down to "where the hell is the part of the code that actually does something?!" being perpetually lost in layer among layer of abstraction with the relevant connecting pieces far far apart.
Sometimes I dream about a language with a “blessed” editor that just had a rich 2D formula and matrix notation editor. Having context in the form of a formula is sometimes helpful in remembering what a pesky one-off variable name might mean…
Modern fortran has a bit more modern flavour to it, but formulae being so verbose would make the "formula" aspect of a code disappear.