A brief history of scripting the Mac

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A brief history of scripting the Mac

If the Mac is to be the computer for the rest of us, it also needs to give access to more advanced controls by scripting its actions. This article traces some of the more significant attempts to bring scripting to the rest of us. Over the last forty years there have been dozens of programming and scripting languages that have been developed for, or ported to, Mac OS. The great majority have had no pretensions of use by regular users. The first i…