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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by rtkwe on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:52AM (#21354919)
Arabic is pretty rough because there's a lot of rules about how letters change based on the letters around them. Also it reverts me back to hunt and peck mode for a long time until I learn the new layout which will be a while if I'm just using it for programming.
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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by knolax on Friday October 25, 2019 @12:43PM (#21356760)
> it reverts me back to hunt and peck mode for a long time

I don't see how that's a problem with Arabic specifically. The same would happen if you switched to typing English in Dvorak.

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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by rtkwe on Friday October 25, 2019 @03:44PM (#21358545)
It is different... I don't have to switch to DVORAK to program in Latin script based programming languages it's a choice. I would have to switch to an Arabic layout to program in قلب.
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