Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I'm guessing JavaScript? (Or maybe even Java, of course...)

It's really not a question of the language or whether you can script the 
software from inside. It's a question of whether you can get it to talk to 
the outside through scripts. You need to be able to have *one* script talk 
to *multiple* tools. If you can't have one button that fills in the 
appropriate stuff after talking to three different programs, it's just not 
as useful a scripting language as the COM-based stuff.  COM is to MS what 
pipelines are to UNIX. If the script is stored only in the one tool and it 
can't talk to scripts running inside another tool, it's like the shell 
without pipes.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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