ABJAD

An Arabic Scripting Interpreted Programming Language written using C#

Website:

https://mohammed.ezzedine.me/abjad
Online documentation and an editor for writing and running ABJAD code.
Support for both Arabic and English Languages.

Naming:

Abjad (in Arabic: أبجد) refers to the alphabets

Use Case:

It can be used for teaching kids, with limited knowledge in English, some concepts about programming.

Features:

Till now, it supports limitted and basic programming features:
• Declaring variables and constants
• Assigning values to variables
• Do computational jobs using the basic math operators (+, -, * and /)
• Creating functions with or without parameters
• Creating classes and instantiating them
• For and while loops
• If-else statements
• Printing values to a file
• Adding comments to the code

Specifications:

• ABJAD is a dynamically typed language (like JavaScript, Python, etc.)
• ABJAD is an interpreted lanugage (opposite to compiled languages)
• ABJAD programs have .abjad file extension

Syntax:

It is similar in syntax to JavaScript, with two basic modifications: the characters language (Arabic), and the text direction (From right to left).

Here is a Hello World example: أكتب("مرحبا بالعالم!")؛

• The syntax basically resembles the usage of curly braces as in C family languages
• Statements must end with a semicolon ؛

For more details about the syntax, check this wiki page

ABJAD sample programs:

• test1.abjad
• test2.abjad
• test3.abjad
• test4.abjad
• test5.abjad
• test6.abjad
• test7.abjad
• test8.abjad

Grammar:

The grammar of the language is provided here.

A reference to words-tokens mapping is provided here

Installation:

Instructions for installing and using ABJAD's interpreter are provided in the wiki here

Writing ABJAD programs:

You're going to need an editor that supports Right-To-Left text alignment. You can use Notepad++

License:

MIT License for open-source projects.

Inspiration and Reference:

CSharpLox by Mohammad Rahhal.