AppleScript predates Javascript by two years, but by even more than that in terms of usability. It was definitely designed for "non-programmers", the people b

AppleScript predates Javascript by two years, but by even more than that in terms of usability. It was definitely designed for "non-programmers", the people buying Macs in the System 7 days. But modern MacOS is automatable using Javascript in Script Editor, so they're catching up.