Microsoft is developing a home-grown version of the popular Python scripting language that's called IronPython, which will run on the .Net framework.

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AppleScript is the best-supported language, but it tends to infuriate programmers; fortunately, there are a third-party JavaScript component and modules for Python and Perl (look in CPAN under 'Mac').

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