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He says they suck to deal w/ in computing because they're hugely more complicated than English and Russian which have very small, simple alphabets that are very easy to process.


Computing was born in English speaking places (as far as I am aware), probably why it doesn't cater well for more complex languages.


Maybe it's just my ignorance showing, but it seems to me that the complexity is inherent in the languages themselves.


It's not your ignorance, they're obviously enormously more complicated, in many cases




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