Scripting News: Today's DocServer

Monday August 21, 2023; 8:08 AM EDT

As you may know, I've been reviewing projects that I haven't looked at in a while. Latest is DocServer, the online docs for Drummer's built-in scripting language. If you use(d) Frontier, you'll recognize both the format of the pages and the names of the verbs. Here are the docs for date.secondsSince and gitHub.upload to give you an idea of the range of functionality, from simple data manipulation to providing glue for powerful web apps that have well-thought-out APIs. This idea goes back to the late 80s when we were pushing scriptable Mac apps over excessive integration. Another idea that caught on, slowly, over time until now we take it for granted. #
Today's DocServer looks like this.#
PS: Here's a screen shot of the original DocServer from Frontier in the 90s, a Mac app.#

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