I do appreciate how ancient and unsupported these workflows are. I wasn't even born when AML was first designed by ESRI, and I do feel like I should be sporting a Unix beard to work on these scripts.
Easy now, some of us cut our teeth with aml, arcplot command line, and unix....
...back-end relies on MapObjects (yes, not ArcObjects, but MapObjects).... ....This workflow was designed 20 years ago...
Leeches were once used for certain medical treatments. And I thought I was old an in the way....
As long as we are talking in the past tense, here is a thread I participated in back in '07:
Creating turntable
That should just about do it....