On Jan 25, 2005, at 19:28, Allan Odgaard wrote:
AS integrates with other applications which one may use in combination with TextMate, like Automator, Script Editor [...]
Also a point I forgot to mention, AS has been refined over many years to be an application extension language, this means it has stuff like event handlers, so not only can a script call TM, but a script can setup hooks for TM to call (at least to the best of my knowledge) -- the infrastructure for all this is already defined and partially implemented, TM only needs to make use of it.
There is no language I'm aware of which has similar capabilities, so I'd have to invent a lot myself, which is more work and a bad idea.