قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic

Post by reaperducer » Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 7:36 PM UTC

alienallys wrote: post #586

gkfasdfasdf wrote: post #500

The negative reactions here claiming that everyone should use English are really disappointing, on hacker news of all places. Nobody is saying we need to rewrite the Linux kernel in Arabic. But a language such as this could be a great tool to introduce programming to people who would otherwise be turned away by the language barrier. What is important is not the keywords for, if else, etc but the concepts of logic and…

For a long-term perspective, all world should converge on one medium of exchange and everyone must learn that. I'm not suggesting an English hegemony here. We need to avoid balkanization. Arabic language has subsumed many local languages to be dominant in that part of world. A Bedouin feels a cultural bias towards Arabia if he starts coding in this language. I'm from India and non-Hindi speaker; if coding is done in…

Post by rtkwe » Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 7:44 PM UTC

knolax wrote: post #506

rtkwe wrote: post #397

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Arabic is pretty rough because there's a lot of rules about how letters change based on the letters around them. Also it reverts me back to hunt and peck mode for a long time until I learn the new layout which will be a while if I'm just using it for programming.

> it reverts me back to hunt and peck mode for a long time I don't see how that's a problem with Arabic specifically. The same would happen if you switched to typing English in Dvorak.

Post by barce » Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 7:47 PM UTC

gkfasdfasdf wrote: post #500

The negative reactions here claiming that everyone should use English are really disappointing, on hacker news of all places. Nobody is saying we need to rewrite the Linux kernel in Arabic. But a language such as this could be a great tool to introduce programming to people who would otherwise be turned away by the language barrier. What is important is not the keywords for, if else, etc but the concepts of logic and…

Post by dunkelheit » Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 7:49 PM UTC

runxel wrote: post #312

fxj wrote: post #229

Visual Basic for Applications has localized Versions. Here is an Example in german, so why not in arabic? Funktion VorherigerGeschaeftstag(dt Als Datum) Als Datum Dim wd as integer wd = Wochentag(dt) ' Wochentag liefert 1 für Sonntag, 2 für Montag usw. Prüfe Fall wd Fall 1 ' Auf Sonntag wird Datum vom letzten Freitag zurückgegeben VorherigerGeschaeftstag = dt - 2 Fall 2 ' Auf Montag wird Datum vom letzten Freitag zur…

Thanks, I hate it! It's like how every function in Excel is translated as well. `=SUMMEWENNS(…` Complete nonsense, it makes my eyes bleed.

Post by trophycase » Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 7:51 PM UTC

val314159 wrote: post #578

Why hasn't anyone pointed out that, except for function and variable names, almost all of computer code is symbols which were pilfered from . . . arabic???