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: Timothy Bates <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:53:58 +1000
On 9/24/01 12:09 PM, "Rachel Cogent" <email@hidden> wrote:
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it seems a little bizarre that such a rudimentary operation requires mucho
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gyrations to accomplish in AppleScript.
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Is there anything remotely like DOS commands?
Under OSX (which in just a week or two's time is going to redefine the
meaning of raw speed and stability for mac users and computer users in
general), we have access to all of the BSD command line. You can also
directly address the command line via AppleScript. So getting every file
that matches
"hello*.txt" is easy as
ls hello*.txt
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> Object-oriented methods and classes may make sense somewhere but if
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> you want a scripting language easily usable by people who just want
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> to get things done they're simply not the right answer.
I think that the single greatest strength of AppleScript is that it
implements object orientation so fluidly that most users have no idea that
they are addressing objects when they "tell word 3 to get color of letter 2"
This was the whole point of objects: to assemble great things from groups
of compartmentalized functionality. That is why AppleEvents formed the basis
of Bento/OpenDoc.
Dr Timothy Bates <
mailto:email@hidden>
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS)
Macquarie University
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