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I assume (in good faith) that it isn’t meaning general purpose the way that I interpret the word “general purpose.” But still... it does indeed immediately give

• bohemian99 6y ago
  From the about page: Objective-S is an architecture-oriented programming language based loosely on Smalltalk and Objective-C. It currently runs on macOS, iOS and Linux, the latter using GNUstep. By allowing general architectures, Objective-S is the first general purpose programming language. What we currently call general purpose languages are actually domain specific languages for the domain of algorithms. http://objective.st/About http://objective.st/About
  • laurencerowe 6y ago
    To me at least “general purpose” describes almost all programming languages with the exception of “special purpose” or “domain specific” languages like SQL, Prolog or XSLT.
  • yellowapple 6y ago
    Which is an interesting premise, but it could use a lot more explanation on what makes this language actually "general purpose" and not itself a domain specific language for the domain of algorithms (in particular, representing something other than algorithms where this language excels). As it stands, it looks exactly like a domain specific language for the domain of "algorithms that expect to be run on a system with Cocoa or some approximation thereof". But I'm probably missing something, in which case that something could use some explication in the introduction or on the "about" page.