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		egypturnash on Oct 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in A... How large is the chasm for a new programmer whose native language is Arabic?

michaelmrose on Oct 25, 2019 [–]

It's pretty high. We could make it lower by helping people learn English but tools to program in their existing language so they don't have to learn English first make sense too.

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