[CAIRO] A new programming language based on Arabic characters has been designed to try to open up software coding to more people from the Arab world. The new coding language, dubbed Alb, which means ...

For example, the emoji up arrow means “the Y coordinate” of a dot and the emoji watch followed by the emoji up arrow means the “previous Y coordinate” of a dot.

Disappointed by the heavy reliance on English for programming, computer scientist and designer Ramsey Nasser created a new coding language in Arabic Studying computer science at the American ...