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> Through AREXX any application could control any other application, which is something Windows and OSX still don't really do. I mean to some extent it's sort o
by DerekL 6y ago
> Through AREXX any application could control any other application, which is something Windows and OSX still don't really do. I mean to some extent it's sort of possible now, but not as easily as it was with Amiga OS.
AppleScript was introduced in System 7.1.1 back in 1993. Maybe ARexx scripting was much better, I don't know.
(Support for scriptable Macintosh applications actually arrived in 1991, but there was no built-in scripting language for it.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript
- flywheel 6y agoAREXX was around in 1987. It was amazing. Pretty much every application had an "AREXX port" to allow scripting. And I used it extensively. The closest I've seen to anything like it is OLE on Windows, but it's not very accessible or pervasive like AREXX was in every application.