First of all, I'm pretty sure that my PoV is biased by the fact that I'm European and grew up in a Latin alphabet world. With that said, I'm not saying that Chinese writing hinders Chinese people capability or development - China had been and it's becoming again the leading country in the world on many aspects - but just as programming languages syntax go, the same applies to human languages. Python syntax is simpler and less verbose then old-school Java for example, but that doesn't mean that shitty software can be written in Python and great software can be written in Java, or that someone cannot learn Java as their first programming language. Maybe there are some mental tricks and shortcuts that kick in with pictographs that I'm not aware of because I'm not a language expert or a Chinese speaker, and that make everything simpler for the brain that what I can imagine from my point of view. Thanks for the interchange anyway, I learned something new :)