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AppleScript Maintenance

AppleScript
KindProgramming language
Appeared1993
StatusMaintenance
CreatorApple
FamilyIndependent
Sourcedeveloper.apple.com ↗

Mac OS's automation language — 'tell application "Finder"' English-like commands that still glue Mac workflows together.

Created by Apple Computer

AppleScript (1993) — Apple's natural-language scripting for the Mac — let you 'tell application "Finder" to open' — English-like automation of the whole system via Apple Events.\n\nIt was the most-used end-user automation language on the Mac for two decades; Shortcuts is its modern heir.

Sources

  1. developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript