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True. That doesn’t answer my question though. Can you give an example of a practical problem you can solve in Objective-S that you can’t solve in (say) C++?

• mpweiher 5y ago
  Yes it does answer your question. 1. Anything that can be solved in any one Turing-complete language can be solved in any other Turing-complete language. 2. Both of these are Turing-complete languages, so obviously anything that can be solved in one can be solved in the other. 3. Lots of domain-specific languages are also Turing-complete, so anything that can be solved in C++ or Objective-S can be solved in them and vice versa. 4. It thus follows that (a) "can be solved" vs. "cannot be solved" is not a useful criterion for distinguishing between Turing-complete languages. Or that (b) there are no relevant differences between Turing-complete languages. 5. My money is on 4a.
  • mbrodersen 5y ago
    OK so the claim that Objective-S is more general purpose than other languages is wrong then. Thanks for clarifying that.
    • mpweiher 5y ago
      No it isn't. I could just re-post the post you replied to, as it is explained there, but that probably won't help at this point... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯