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Animating cats in Hypercard, creating batch files (or even baroque Lotus 1-2-3 macros) – writing your own scripts was once an integral part of personal computing. If an application didn’t have its own arcane scripting language, it didn’t really cut it. Recently Android automation tools such as Tasker, IFTTT and Workflow for …

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Trollface

    MSFT app?

    About as welcome as a visit from Aunt Flow!

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Bring back OPL

    What I want is something like the Organiser Programming Language on iPhone and Android. Simple enough for anyone to learn, powerful enough to build solutions.

    I saw the value of having an on-the-go programming platform then, and the same concepts still hold value today. That's why I'm interested in the announced Swift Playgrounds concept for iOS - it brings back some of that fun but on more powerful hardware and may just get me back into programming (not professionally, just to address some things that have been bugging me :) ).

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  4. David Glasgow

    LiveCode

    I just love it.

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