Re: AppleScript seems to be Unique...
Re: AppleScript seems to be Unique...
- Subject: Re: AppleScript seems to be Unique...
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 19:33:15 -0700
At 16:02 +0200 8/1/2001, Emmanuel wrote:
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IMO, the key is that Apple *has been* providing this language *since '91*.
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(and that, already in '91 it was almost mature)
Spring of '93 (or fall of '93 if one didn't venture in corners of the
developer stuff at Apple) for non-seeded developers. Apple was *talking
about* AppleScript in 1991 (and foolishly laying off the Apple Events
Registrar not long after that).
And in Spring of '93, Microsoft was already present with a pretty solid
implementation in Excel (no VBA in sight). Excel's terminology suffered an
unfortunate collision with Apple's use of "text"...in that Excel version,
text of cell "..." was supposed to return the as-formatted text (not
as-styled; as formatted, as in ($3.75)). But it couldn't, because Apple
"stole" text after Microsoft shipped it (or was committed to it). The
event worked fine...Frontier could get the text; so could AppleScript if
one hacked the 'aete' as I did.
Apple Event Manager came out in '91, indeed (and was in use from day 1 of
System 7); Userland Frontier came out in January '92 and provided a very
convenient face for the AE Manager (I stopped using Frontier only because
Dave took it in another direction: I found it much easier to use for
largish projects than AppleScript). One reason I bought Frontier was that
Dave assured me that it patched no traps...always a good thing IMHO. [And
an even better thing in Mac OS X ;-)]
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA