Creating an Arabic Programming Language!

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Created an Arabic programming language called Noor, an imperative Algol-based language aimed at middle and high schoolers; a working browser editor exists but initially shows broken text until Arabic bidi and reshaping are implemented. Implementation uses Peggy to build the parser/DSL, includes a FizzBuzz example, and chooses Sudanese-dialect keywords. The talk documents concrete choices, tooling, rendering bugs, how they’re fixed, and that the language actually runs in the browser.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:32Ramzi
3. 2:03Noor
4. 3:10Function
5. 4:04Keywords
6. 4:20Arabic
7. 4:56Sudanese Dialect
8. 7:11How Arabic works
9. 8:13Reshaping
10. 9:18Math

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