Ignoring the question about whether software is an artistic or an engineering endeavor, another interesting question is whether source code should be visually appealing? Ramsey Nasser, a computer scientist and fellow at the Eyebeam Art+Technology Center in New York City, has developed a programming language based on Arabic script instead of English. The language is a Scheme-like functional programming language that has its roots in Lisp. It is called قلب – (pronounced Qalb) which is the Arabic word for heart. Interestingly, the new language is also designed to support artistic code, i.e. visually pleasing code. To create such artistic code,