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History of AppleScript’s Development

I thought this paper was pretty interesting, since AppleScript is my favorite language to hate. An interesting, but failed experiment. I entirely support its aims though. The problem of how to replace command line pipes in a GUI environment is still an interesting one.

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Rails vs Seaside

I came across an interesting post about SmallTalk’s Seaside versus Ruby’s Rails.

The meat is in the comments which are very polite and informative. I’ve only played with Squeak once back in college so I didn’t really grasp the whole editing-live-objects-which-don’t-live-in-files thing.

It sounds pretty neat and pretty powerful.

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