"We could, of course, use any notation we want; do not laugh at notations; invent them, they are powerful. In fact, mathematics is, to a large extent, invention of better notations. The whole idea of a four-vector, in fact, is an improvement in notation so that the transformations can be remembered easily."
What he said about mathematics, I think it applies even more to programming.
[1] The Feynman Lecture on Physics, Volume 1, Chapter 17