For download locations and instructions for subscribing to the MacPerl mailing lists, consult the MacPerl FAQ . Other sources of MacPerl information include the MacPerl Pages and the MacPerl Gateway . The MacPerl primer , by Sandra Silcot, will tell you how to use all this. A new AppleScript tutorial by Chris Nandor is online for using MacPerl with Apple Events, AppleScript, and OSA, which is also available with the MacPerl 5.2.0r4 distribution. Molecular Vision Software provides MakePerlDroplet, an AppleScript droplet that directs MacPerl to check the syntax of a Perl script and compile the script as a droplet.
Source code is available.
For information about Python implementation issues on the Mac, subscribe to the Python-Macintosh SIG mailing list . Learn about Python generally at the main Python web site . I do not know whether MacPython is OSA-compliant. The Java virtual machine allows JPython to statically compile Python source code to Java bytecodes that will run anywhere that Java does. Through Java's support for dynamic class loading, JPython can dynamically compile Python code to allow interactive use while still achieving the performance of a true compiler.