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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by black_puppydog on Friday October 25, 2019 @03:55AM (#21352791)
My SO works on a project with leeeeeegacy software that still uses an RDBMS/OS combination (yes, it's one product. don't remember the name) in French.

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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by usrusr on Friday October 25, 2019 @07:37AM (#21353952)
So, an SMBDR/SO? ;)

(sorry for the bad joke, I'm just kind of fond of French acronym mangling. The vocabulary is similar enough to English to to keep the letters the same in many cases, only the order is off. It's bit like verlan for the rest of the world)

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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by black_puppydog on Friday October 25, 2019 @08:55AM (#21354468)
Yeah it's amazing. My favorite is maybe "UTC" [1] in which case the French and English versions clashed so hard that they formed a full new acronym that makes no sense in either language. :D

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time#Ety...

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