This is probably a dumb question, but what kind of new world would open the possibility to script a stack in javascript (for instance) ?
I was thinking of the way HyperCard handled this. There was a popdown button at the top of the script editor that allowed the author to set the scripting language. HyperCard would accept and use any OSA language available in the OS. All you had to do was set the scripting language to, for example, "applescript", and when you closed the script editor the entire script was compiled using the applescript compiler. You didn't have to "do" the script as applescript; it just ran natively that way. There was no speed hit when the script ran, because the engine didn't have to open and run the compiler the way it does when you "do as applescript".
If this technique could be used cross-platform for any available compiler, then those who want to write in javascript could do so and their scripts would run natively in that language. Ditto for any other available language.
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