(1993) Designing a Modern Scripting Language : AppleScript

This lecture focuses on the problem of creating a scripting system to be used for automating, integrating and customizing the computer services supplied by networked applications and operating systems. Existing solutions are typically monolithic: they do not support scripting services that can be used throughout the system. The design of AppleScript illustrates how to overcome these problems by combining dynamic object-oriented language and database technologies in a distributed, internationalizable scripting system. Source: https://archive.org/details/The_Distinguished_Lecture_Series_VI_William_R_Cook_and_Warren_Harris_Designing_a Sponsored by Apple Computer, Inc. About the Speakers William Cook is the managing technical lead of the AppleScript project. He has a PhD in computer science from Brown University. BEfore moving to product development he researched the semantics of object-oriented languages. Warren Harris has an MA degree in electrical engineering and has worked on inte