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People that do novel math often invent their own notation -- it's sort of like domain-specific languages written on top of LISP.
Teaching programming languages haven't proven to be a popular idea, e.g. MIT and Berkeley moved their famous introductory CS class from scheme to python (because python is actually used, even though it is a much less elegant language).