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From: mcdermid@hcl.com
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Subject: Re: Why no M$ AppleScript or Rexx imitations?
Date: 14 Jun 1996 16:36:48 GMT
Organization: Hummingbird Communications
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In <4pq755$gdr@news.starnet.net>, cable@cybergate.org (Norman G. King) writes:
>Gee, nothing about why no AppleScript or Rexx imitations in Windows
>95? Microsoft is planning to use JavaScript for applications in
>Windows 97 and Windows NT 4.0, you can download Java programs from the
>net and run them in future versions of Windows. Microsoft is taking
>its time because it is writing script recorders to build JavaScript
>apps without any knowledge of Java.
Wow, they are copying OS/2 again. If they copy enough, they
will actually have a good OS.
This last sentence is particularly funny, since OpenDOC OSA scripting
already addresses this problem, and in a much more flexible
and open way. But, of course, Microsoft must invent their own
standard, completely incompatible with anyone else.
-- Rob
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