Ramsey Nasser قلب (nas.sr)

This is fascinating; it's always neat to get a different perspective on programming, even if it may not be a hugely practical one.

I love the idea of code as calligraphy, which has traditionally been an important part of the culture surrounding the Arabic language.

I've always thought that its been a good thing that the language chosen for computing just happened to be based on the latin character set and has very little complexity. I can't imagine how difficult it would have been to write in Arabic, with its calligraphic complexity and combined forms (and other languages with similar issues) earlier on. Even today on smaller displays you can get away with ASCII but not anything more exotic.