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Re:The -a to -z of Command-Line Options (2003) by laumars on Monday December 10, 2018 @10:29AM (#18648538)
You could still do scripting akin to Bash scripts on OS 7 and above via AppleScript[1]; which worked a little bit like WSH did on Windows.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript

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Re:The -a to -z of Command-Line Options (2003) by chongli on Monday December 10, 2018 @12:34PM (#18649555)
Yes, and I'm an old fan of AppleScript as well. The difference, as far as I know, is that you couldn't hide core application functionality behind that API, could you?

If you could, I think most developers didn't, since AppleScript isn't a default means of using the computer the way Unix shells are.

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