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		kalleboo on Oct 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in A... AppleScript in its original, 90’s classic macOS implementation, was said to support this. It compiled down to a symbolic representation, which was then restored based on which language was selected. IIRC only a French alternate language was ever developed (HyperCard had more, but those scripts were stored as text) but also a JavaScript “dialect”. The compiled representation was mostly exposed to users when they didn’t have the app used in a script installed and just got FourCCs/OSTypes sprinkled throughout their script instead

ahmaman on Oct 25, 2019 [–]

Interesting, haven't heard of these!

I am sure many small projects attempted to innovate similar solutions but never really took off.

If such a thing got popular, would be interesting to see if it would affect international collaboration. Whether it would speed things up.

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