RE: What's the biggest barrier to wider AS adoption?
RE: What's the biggest barrier to wider AS adoption?
- Subject: RE: What's the biggest barrier to wider AS adoption?
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 20:42:50 -0700
At 8:15 PM -0400 9/21/2001, Jeff Handy wrote:
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Last time I increased productivity that much, I got an equal raise.
The Mac advantage is a blessing and a curse. I know a number of Mac based shops who consider it their secret weapon. They don't waste time and effort on unimportant and unbillable activities like repairing virus damaged PCs. However, the disadvantage is that the dumb people don't use a Mac, so you're stuck being "compatible". I remember visiting IBM and their guys doing the old "we don't know how to do that" routine, so I made them give me the floppy, slapped it into my PowerBook's floppy drive (it was a while ago) and smacked things into shape. Sheesh.
You should all consider AppleScript your not-so-secret weapon and be glad you have anything at all. I remember when you had to write MPW scripts to do anything script-like. Heck, I remember when there *wasn't* anything to script in on the Mac. That was one more reason why HyperCard was so cool.
Another thing about AppleScript though, it was very innovative at the time. Not many other object oriented network IPC aware scripting languages existed in 1993 (Frontier being one of them).
But I better sign off before I start tripping down memory lane again...
Jon