but some time around 2005 or so, Apple the company stopped caring about these AppleScript and Automator, and let them languish, to the point where now, basically nothing is scriptable. HyperCard was also dead by this point.
so routes into end user programmer were dwindling
beka valentine
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2026-07-01 17:39:55 UTC
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