Bitcoin offered the first smart contract programming language the world had ever seen. Script, as this language is called, lets users encode different conditions under which coins can be spent. But ...

CEDING CONTROL: The United States is poised to cede control of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is responsible for managing Internet protocols and domain names.

It’s with that in mind that computer scientist Ramsey Nasser has built قلب (pronounced “Alb,” lit. “heart”), a fully-functional programming language based on Arabic script.