[kkfx]

Programming is for humans, that's why we have programming languages instead of writing machine code... Humans have different concept of writing. I think that's perfectly natural to have conventions on style of writing.

Koreans use sillabic bigrams, in the west we use mostly letters in a handful of variation per country and two main alphabet (how many remember that in Europe we have various letters not only in Cyrillic and it's national variations? Like þ, Ð, ȝ, ...), Japanese have even three alphabets (hiragana, katakana and kanji) often mixed for kanji reading aids, ... we have invented the concept of International Auxiliary Languages, with their alphabets, the most well-known is Esperanto but they never took off because pushing their own language give advantage to the successful push-er and so a war at a time we see winners and looser...

Computer time does not count much in that game.