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Re: Adding a message to a mailbox in Mail

On 10/02/2002 12:57, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:

>> Let me ask you this...can you imagine Microsoft pointing to Wordperfect as
>> an example of how to implement VBA in a word-processing application?
>
> But Word, even on Windows, is a commercial application that costs a lot of
> money. It doesn't come free, bundled, with Windows. I don't think "Notepad"
> is particularly scriptable by VBA. TextEdit quite outclasses Notepad, and
> eventually (sigh) will do so in the scripting department too. It's certainly
> true that Outlook Express in Windows - bundled, free - is a lot more
> developed than Mail. It's also had a lot longer to get there.

Well, point of fact, in windows world, they practically ship Office in boxes
of Tide. But the truth is, the free stuff is where people *start* to script.
It's the beginners that need a top-flight dictionary

>
> Where Apple sells apps commercially - FileMaker Pro, iPod - I think we
> should expect top-quality scripting there, yes.

Well, how about *any* scripting in Apple-branded professional applications?

john

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Jeff La Grua
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