[CAIRO] A new programming language based on Arabic characters has been designed to try to open up software coding to more people from the Arab world.. T he new coding language, dubbed Alb, which means ...

Every month or so, computer scientist Ramsey Nasser gets a desperate email from the Arabic world, or sometimes China, or Russia, asking for his help. They want to know more about Qlb ...

Programmers often talk about writing “beautiful code,” but computer scientist Ramsey Nasser has taken that idea to new lengths by developing the first programming language that uses Arabic script for ...

Artist and coder Ramsey Nasser decided to remedy the problem by constructing a programming language written not in ... Artist helps Arabic speakers to code without learning English. daniel cooper.

The first Arabic bilingual program was launched at Glengarry School more than 25 years ago. Yazan Haymour from the Canadian Arab Friendship Association helped establish those programs and he would ...

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.

The same way that calligraphy and the beauty of text are a deep part of the Arabic and Muslim traditions, Qlb could be written in a visual style that was artistic, with woven algorithms and code ...

The قلب language itself is Scheme-like, meaning it is a functional programming language that has its roots in Lisp, long a favorite of computer scientists.. What makes قلب unique, however, is that it ...

Every month or so, computer scientist Ramsey Nasser gets a desperate email from the Arabic world, or sometimes China, or Russia, asking for his help. They want to know more about Qlb — pronounced ...