AppleScript
@article{Cook2007AppleScript, title={AppleScript}, author={William R. Cook}, journal={Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages}, year={2007} }
AppleScript is a scripting language and environment for the Mac OS. Originally conceived in 1989, AppleScript allows end users to automate complex tasks and customize Mac OS applications. To automate tasks, AppleScript provides standard programming language features (control flow, variables, data structures) and sends Apple Events to invoke application behavior. Apple Events are a variation on standard remote procedure calls in which messages can identify their arguments by queries that are…
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