William Cook, RIP
Dr William Cook, who along with Warren Harris designed and developed AppleScript for Apple back in the early 90s, has sadly passed away at age 57.
Much of 1990s OOP was defined by his seminal papers. When he returned after a decade in industry (AppleScript!) I invited him to @BrownCSDept (where he got his PhD from Peter Wegner) and we became friends. Tragic.
See also:
- Inheritance Is Not Subtyping (1990)
- AppleScript (2006)
- On Understanding Data Abstraction, Revisited (2009)
Previously:
Update (2021-12-13): Christina Warren:
I’m nobody -- but I can’t express how much AppleScript meant to me as a kid when I was starting to figure out what programming was and how to do things. To this day, I still love to automate all the things. RIP Dr. Cook.
See also:
- The Open Scripting Architecture: Automating, Integrating, and Customizing Applications (1993)
- Hacker News
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Sad to learn this. I've used AppleScript daily for the past 10 years - despite it's age, it's still useful and extremely approachable.
