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> there's SPICE for regular electronic circuits and SysVerilog et al for logic circuits

Both are inputs for programs, not actual representations for humans to work with and -understand. Try and design or better yet fix actual hardware with a SPICE netlist or Verilog program, good luck with that. Different use cases require different representations and the world doesn't just consist of software.

> Category theory diagrams can be written in a simple language

Category theory diagrams are not curves or function plots.

I get the feeling that you are confusing file formats with representation. If I need external software to actually render the input (which can be binary or text for all I care) into a human-readable and -consumable format, what good is text?

What's the "readability" of an SVG, LaTex, or worse - MS DOCX - document?

How is this:

  Example netlist
  v1 1 0 dc 15
  r1 1 0 2.2k
  r2 1 2 3.3k     
  r3 2 0 150
  .end
even remotely comparable to this: https://sub.allaboutcircuits.com/images/01004.png

And again, I'm not talking about document formats for software - I'm talking about data representation for humans.




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