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Re:Ramsey Nasser's Arabic programming language artwork by nayefc on Monday May 05, 2014 @05:04PM (#7701243)
Depending on the harakat (حركات).

Heart: قلّب Inversion: قَلَبَ.

Different words, same root. One is a noun, and the other a verb in its basic conjugation will have the same set of letters.

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Re:Ramsey Nasser's Arabic programming language artwork by jdeisenberg on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @12:05PM (#7705294)
And therein lies a possible problem with using Arabic as a programming language: it is normally written without explicit voweling, which can lead to ambiguity of meaning. That might not be desirable in a programming language.
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Re:Ramsey Nasser's Arabic programming language artwork by CountHackulus on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @12:36PM (#7705499)
Which happens all the time already with english programming languages. "or" does not mean the same thing in most programming languages that it does in English.
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Re:Ramsey Nasser's Arabic programming language artwork by nayefc on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @09:44AM (#7710081)
Arabic is a very rich and complicated language, yes :) It is one of the toughest languages to learn.
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