Cook’s HOPL3 paper on the early history and motivations of AppleScript is a great read, full of insight and ambition, and it is a damn shame that early 90s Appl

Cook’s HOPL3 paper on the early history and motivations of AppleScript is a great read, full of insight and ambition, and it is a damn shame that early 90s Apple management pissed off Cook and Harris into walking out the door, effectively taking with them all of the institutional knowledge and experience that—after a few more rounds—could’ve made Mac Automation into a true game changer. I will also put this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MaHJ_mzrTU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MaHJ_mzrTU As presentations go, it not the best sales pitch; and it lacks the depth of the paper (which was written much later), but it’s just a joy to see two young UX innovators genuinely psyched and evangelizing their work. Sadly Warren Harris passed, still young, a few years back; and William Cook late last year. Which probably leaves me as the last person who truly understands that work, and what it tried to achieve. (And still could, in the right hands, although I doubt those hands existin in Apple any more.)