قلب (Levantine Arabic: [ʔalb]), transliterated Qalb, Qlb and Alb, is a functional programming language allowing a programmer to write programs completely in Arabic.
It was developed in 2012 by Ramsey Nasser, a computer scientist at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York City, as both an artistic endeavor and as a response to the Anglophone bias in the vast majority of programming languages, which express their fundamental concepts using English words.
The syntax is like that of Lisp or Scheme, consisting of parenthesized lists.
The language provides a minimal set of primitives for defining functions, conditionals, looping, list manipulation, and basic arithmetic expressions.
It is Turing-complete, and the Fibonacci sequence and Conway's Game of Life have been implemented.