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Hello world: meet قلب, a programming language based on Arabic script

In the Arab world, aspiring programmers are faced with a unique kind of challenge: nearly every computer language, platform, and standard in history has been built around a Latin character set — a set of symbols that, in many cases, is utterly mysterious to them. It's with that in mind that computer scientist Ramsey Nasser has built قلب (pronounced "Alb," lit. "heart"), a fully-functional programming language based on Arabic script.Historically, computers have never been very friendly in this si...

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