In the context of some other language being the origin of computing, and since the OP mentions Russian as fairly easy to work with... What if this had been Russian everywhere instead of English? If all of the terminology, POSIX, C and other language keywords had all been Russian, with the rest of the world (including English speakers) instead learning Russian as lingua franca? (Yes, deviating substantially from history for this) Would the outcome be roughly the same? Would it avoid those pitfalls of Japanese? Would it be mildly more / less convenient?