Matt Neuburg on AppleScript
Matt Neuburg, matt@tidbits.com, responds to the AppleScript piece I posted yesterday.Matt Neuburg on AppleScript
Your AppleScript editorial is right on the money.
Steve Jobs' Seybold keynote showed one AppleScript, without much comment. There was no discussion of the significance of scripting per se, nor of Apple events (the system-level messaging system that makes scripting possible), nor of the OSA (which allows development and interaction of multiple scripting dialects).
As you say, it's a culture thing. People want to drive their computer, not be driven by it. But it's also a business thing. Businesses *need* to drive their computer. "Solutions" are the future. Does Apple really get it, even now? If they did, wouldn't they bring back free HyperCard (which is why I switched to the Mac in the first place)?
Meanwhile, John Ousterhout's white paper says it all; Perl is growing by leaps and bounds; Microsoft is moving forward...
- http://www.scriptics.com/people/john.ousterhout/scripting.html
- http://www.perl.com/
- http://www.microsoft.com/scripting/windowshost/default.htm
Frontier is already way, way down this road; does Apple have *any* idea how it has benefitted from this?
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