The thing about computer programming languages is that they’re all weird subsets of English, basically (BASICally?).
This was always both interesting and disturbing to me, as a linguist. I have been fascinated by the idea of possible alternatives to that Engish hegemony. Finally, someone is doing something about it – not that it will go anywhere. Some guy is making a programming language based on Arabic, called قلب [qlb i.e. qalab? = heart, core] – here’s an article about it at The Reg.
This pleases me both as a linguist and as a former computer nerd. I wish this project the best of luck.
