Qalb - Programming language

Qalb is an open source programming language created in 2012 by Ramsey Nasser.

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قلب (Levantine Arabic: [ʔalb]), transliterated Qalb, Qlb and Alb, is a functional programming language allowing a programmer to write programs completely in Arabic. Its name means heart and is a recursive acronym in Arabic meaning Qlb: a programming language (قلب: لغة برمجة, Qlb: Lughat Barmajah). It was developed in 2012 by Ramsey Nasser, a computer scientist at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York City, as both an artistic endeavor and as a response to the Anglophone bias in the vast majority of programming languages, which express their fundamental concepts using English words. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
Qalb is developed on GitHub and has 755 stars
Early development of Qalb happened in https://github.com/nasser/---/issues
Qalb is written in JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Markdown, JSON, Ruby
Qalb is written with the native language of Arabic
See also: (2 related languages) Scheme, Lisp

Example from Riju:

(قول "مرحبا يا عالم")

Example from hello-world:

(قول "Hello World")

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"