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Or even, why isn't every language written using the latin alphabet? To which an answer might be, latin doesn't support certain sounds, can't represent tones...
by mooism2 18y ago
Or even, why isn't every language written using the latin alphabet?
To which an answer might be, latin doesn't support certain sounds, can't represent tones... and if it did, it would break chinese language interoperability.
- jgranby 18y agoAnalogy with human languages isn't ideal, because they have almost all grown up organically, whereas programming languages are, to a large extent, designed. The reason that every language doesn't use the Latin alphabet is, amongst others, geographic -- so many others grew up in isolation from the West, they'd never come across that alphabet before. The same isn't really true of programming languages.