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: Mohamed Shams <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:00:03 -0400
Yes Jon... Tripping down the memory lane for sure.. AppleScript is
great.. We're automating everything from Cumulus updates and FTP to Palm
contact exports into Excel Sheets..
I wouldn't trade that simplicity and functionality for anything on a PC..But
you know what !! it's not so innovative anymore... The Windows scripting
host on windows 95/ME/NT/2000 is so much faster/powerful... And even
better... With application automation with Visual Basic... It's light years
ahead of anything you can do with AppleScript, Frontier, or RealBasic with
AE..
Another thing.. I wouldn't trade my Mac and Lacie monitor with all the
gizmos for anything on the PC as a workstation... But the hard reality of
life is... THERE IS NO BIG MAC !!! ... We have a rack-mounted quad
processor XEON PC array that functions as file and web server. You can't
replace that with anything on the Mac side... And guess what... Everything
on there is scriptable... Including user management, backups, remote
administration, and zillions of other things... You just need IT caliber
that doesn't come as easy as AppleScripting skills.
Mo.
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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.
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The Mac advantage is a blessing and a curse. I know a number of Mac based
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shops who consider it their secret weapon. They don't waste time and effort
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on unimportant and unbillable activities like repairing virus damaged PCs.
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However, the disadvantage is that the dumb people don't use a Mac, so you're
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stuck being "compatible". I remember visiting IBM and their guys doing the
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old "we don't know how to do that" routine, so I made them give me the floppy,
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slapped it into my PowerBook's floppy drive (it was a while ago) and smacked
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things into shape. Sheesh.
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You should all consider AppleScript your not-so-secret weapon and be glad you
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have anything at all. I remember when you had to write MPW scripts to do
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anything script-like. Heck, I remember when there *wasn't* anything to script
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in on the Mac. That was one more reason why HyperCard was so cool.
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Another thing about AppleScript though, it was very innovative at the time.
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Not many other object oriented network IPC aware scripting languages existed
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in 1993 (Frontier being one of them).
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But I better sign off before I start tripping down memory lane again...
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Jon