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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 "qalb" or "alb," meaning "heart." It's a programming language that uses the Arabic language, script and alphabet to create computer applications. As the Internet covers the planet, opening up new roads for creating wealth and prosperity through computer science, people across the globe are learning to code so that they can partake in the digital revolution.Every time, Nasser has to turn them away, and he gives the same tragic rejection: that Qlb, functional and real as it may be, is just an art piece and a provocation, an experiment meant to show that an Arabic programming language isn't just elusive, it's impossible. (A relevant disclaimer: The Arabic spelling won't render in our CMS.)
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