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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
by kalleboo 7y ago
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 7y agoInteresting, 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.