A question about Openstep languages

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Title: A question about Openstep languages
Post by: askewNletter on October 02, 2022, 02:06:08 PM
Is it possible to make/add custom language into the OS? (sry for poor english)
Title: Re: A question about Openstep languages
Post by: user341 on October 02, 2022, 03:46:59 PM
Not sure what you mean. The later versions of OPENSTEP supported objective C, C++, and I think some Java, depending on what you were doing. Those were languages supported by the libraries/kits.

Other languages work as well. I think there may have been LISP, straight C, and a few other languages you could use/compile on the machine, but dont think they easily integrated into the NeXT development environment, so they were more for programming your own independent things, eg like a command line/posix app.
Title: Re: A question about Openstep languages
Post by: stepleton on October 02, 2022, 04:32:45 PM
could the OP have been asking about human languages, not computer languages?
Title: Re: A question about Openstep languages
Post by: barcher174 on October 02, 2022, 06:08:36 PM
I also think OP is talking about localizations.
Title: Re: A question about Openstep languages
Post by: user341 on October 03, 2022, 02:41:32 PM
Oh, sorry, my bad. Yes, there is also language localization stuff in OPENSTEP 4.2 if I recall. Basically the initial version of what you see in macOS these days. Most language localization was pretty easy, but if I recall was a little different for Japanese back then (and you needed a specific version of the OS to deal with Japanese).

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