For me some people might think that symbols are more appropriate than English keywords, especially as not everyone speaks English, and some roman letter text looks almost the same as some random glyphs. Then again that argument is nonsense as most APIs and documentation are in English however this might change as the web grows in non Western societies, especially in the large world of places like China. If one day China decides to write up java.net and to make all APIs in Chinese (forgetting how hard it is to type w/ Chinese pictographs) what does that mean for language design in the future ? This movement has already started with the standardization that opened up non ascii domain names so people in Russia etc can type in their own alphabets rather than the Roman alphabet.
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