Is there really *nothing* like AS on Windows??
Is there really *nothing* like AS on Windows??
- Subject: Is there really *nothing* like AS on Windows??
- From: Charles Arthur <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:37:22 +0100
Noting a couple of things that have gone past in the previous few days:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:26:07 -0500, email@hidden wrote:
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Question: Why would this increase adoption of AS?
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Answer: For years I have impressed my PC friends by the ease with which I
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perform simple tasks on my Mac they typically struggle with. I can't wait
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to run a really useful script and watch their mouths hang open in wonder.
and the same day Ken Grimm <email@hidden> wrote:
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AppleScript [......] is the ONLY reason Macs have remained the platform
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we do all of our prepress production work on. I was able to fend off a very
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nasty proposed platform conversion change (for the sake of "compatibility")
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a few years ago by the IT guys -- AppleScript was my Silver Bullet. They
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could come up with no alternative on the Windoze platform to match it.
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AppleScript saved Macs in my organization. Not OS X, not the latest QXP, not
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the speed of the G4 -- it was AppleScript alone.
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Without AppleScript, our entire organization would be Windoze. Period. And
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no advertisement, NOTHING by Apple I've seen in the tradebooks or pooter
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media has made this point. Apple has the single most powerful munition in
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its arsenal to make Windoze a thing of the past, and it sits there,
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unrealized by the majority of users.
My question: is that really correct? Nothing to compare with AS on Windows??
What about VBScript, progenitor of all those viruses which once launched go
and do wonderful things to the Windows Registry, to Outlook Express, to
Internet Exploder, etc etc?
While I'd like to believe that AS is unique, I just can't believe that
nobody at MSoft didn't think that a scripting language wouldn't be a good
idea. After all, even DOS has a form of it, in BAT files - batch command
files. Where would the world be without the joys of editing AUTOEXEC.BAT
(and trying to remember whether the one you just saved is called
AUTOEXEC.BAK or AUTOEXEC.OLD)?
Charles
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