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From: jeffsj@execpc.com (Jeffery S. Jones)
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Subject: Re: What exactly is BML?
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On 10-Apr-96 12:39:30, Ron Evans <thoreau@tezcat.com> wrote:
>What exactly is BML? Is it a programming language to write plugins for
>LW Intel, like Arexx for Amiga, or am I totally wrong? There has been
>alot of talk about it in the list, but I must have missed the
>explanation! :)
For LW, it does what Arexx did, providing a scripting language to
access the program's functions. Since Windows doesn't have a universal
scripting language for end-user use (Visual Basic doesn't quite do it,
nor do I see programs providing "access ports" for easy external
programming), BML won't (yet) work on other applications.
Arexx on the Amiga was created by Bill Hawes, and marketed directly to
end users and developers. As more and more applications included
support for it, Commodore decided to buy it and incorporate it into the
OS. Most important, useful applications grew Arexx programming ports,
and writing macros became easy. You didn't have to learn a new lauguage
for each application, and you could access more than one application
from a single script. If BML (or any other scripting language) could be
made to do that in Windows, it would be great. But simply having good
