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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by dukoid on Friday October 25, 2019 @05:58AM (#21353382)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Rutishauser

I don't think it's much more intuitive in German than in English, probably goes back to the "for each" quantor.

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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by bhaak on Friday October 25, 2019 @06:37AM (#21353579)
The for loop is the most unintuitive variant of the possible looping constructs. The others (while do/do while/endless loop) are much more straightforward. We could easily have ended up with another version.

I always read it as inspired by "for values of" which at least in German is a common phrase heard in mathematical courses.

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