Star MacOSX Week: Tales of a BeOS Refugee
Linked by Scot Hacker on Mon 17th Dec 2001 17:34 UTC
Features, Office The story of how a BeOS refugee (and not just everyone, but the author of the 'BeOS Bible' book) lost faith in the future of computing, resigned himself to Windows but found himself bored silly, tore out half his hair at the helm of a Linux box, then rediscovered the joy of computing in MacOSX. Scot Hacker will describe his personal adventures with today's operating systems after he was set out to find an alternative to his beloved (but with no apparent future) BeOS. Update: Make sure you read the second part of the article, a rebutal, found here.
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Scripting not limited to AppleScript
by DescSuit on Tue 18th Dec 2001 02:53 UTC

There's something called the OSA (Open Scripting Architecture) that allows other languages to be used to script Apple Applications. Currently Javascript is supported as is I believe Perl or Python. There's also a beta/alpha of Ruby with OSA support as well.

If the scripting language has an OSA library you can send and recieve apple events with it just like in Applescript, except with your favorite syntax ;)