I think any argument taken to an extreme loses rationality. On one hand, if more people can understand programming, then we increase the pool of programmers, a

I think any argument taken to an extreme loses rationality. On one hand, if more people can understand programming, then we increase the pool of programmers, and that's great. On the other hand, if more people can understand each other's programming, that's also great. At the end of the day, what matters is that we have the largest possible ecosystem that also allows developers to transcend their geographical / ethnic background. ...and if that's the goal, then maybe it makes most sense for us to favor a unified ascii char set? A few language keywords aren't that big of a price for us all to stay on the same page.