Quote:I disagree. If you look at things from the perspective of a computer program, every command, every 'if', 'then', and 'goto', is, essentially, a single whole - a kanji. More than that, even those commands are three levels away from the actual code, the ones and zeroes that run on the bare metal of the computer.
Which may be why they don't have computers in Naruto's world (unless the filler decides to make an episode that goes into the digital Twilight zone). First, you have to make a typewriter... and with a 'one character, one word' language interface. Its actually easier to make a minor fire jutsu that works like a laser printer, than to make a keyboard.
Japanese is a lot easier to text message over a phone than English is, because of the way the kana system is built, and because there is a very simple mechanism programmed into Japanese market cell phones to recognize kana and allow the user to select between kanji that might match them. There are upgrade modules out there that can teach WinWord this trick, if you're curious.
Now, that might be marginally more difficult to build into a computer programming environment than the equivalent English... but I doubt it, and even if I'm wrong, it couldn't be by very much.
And as for the supposition that a computer first requires a typewriter... ENIAC was an adding machine. So was Colossus.
Neither of them had jack to do with the written word. That development took everybody by surprise.
Ja, -n
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