Show HN: My Newest Design: ZigZagLab

Re:Show HN: My Newest Design: ZigZagLab by arianvanp on Monday March 25, 2013 @05:41AM (#5436216)

I like the design, and good luck with your company! I couldn't help but notice the arabic on the page, so I Was wondering if you have seen the programming language قلب already. I love how you can stretch the arabic letters to do code formatting (makes me jealous that our alphabet is so limited when it comes to caligraphy/formatting).

Seriously, arabic rocks for programming: * same reading direction as numerals (Heck, numerals ARE arabic) * code alignment by extending words (WOAH) * DUDE, IT'S ARABIC

So yes. I'm now gonna learn arabic just for programming. -hipster glasses-

قلب - http://qlblang.org/

P.S. : I couldn't help but notice that the designer of قلب pronounces قلب as alb. Whilst I'd expect it to be pronounced "qalb". Is this some dialect?

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Re:Show HN: My Newest Design: ZigZagLab by sallar on Monday March 25, 2013 @05:48AM (#5436231)

Thanks :) But we are Iranian and we speak Farsi (Persian). Farsi alphabet is similar to Arabic but they are not the same. This "Alb" thing is a interesting language though.

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Re:Show HN: My Newest Design: ZigZagLab by _tristanthomas_ on Monday March 25, 2013 @01:25PM (#5438267)

Egyptian tends to pronounce ق as a silent letter. I don't know where the designer is from, but I'd guess that as the reason.

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