Re: Since Apple Listens to this List... [Case Statements]
Re: Since Apple Listens to this List... [Case Statements]
- Subject: Re: Since Apple Listens to this List... [Case Statements]
- From: garbanzito <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:26:30 -0700
at 2002 02 13, 00:22 -0800, they whom i call Bill Hoffman wrote:
the current debate over case v. next repeat is stimulating, but it
begs a more interesting question, in my view. rather than hoping and
pleading for more features of "real" languages in AppleScript, I'd
like to know what the likliehood is of seeing other languages made
available as osa components for OS X.
do the AppleEvents data structures map cleanly to other
scripting languages? if not, wouldn't it make more sense to
put AppleEvents capabilities in a separate library and keep
each core language unpolluted?
the exception would be other languages that were built from
the ground up with AppleEvents integrated. the only major
example i know of is UserTalk, the language of Frontier and
Radio.
for anyone who feels constrained by AppleScript as a
software development language (not that i think all
scripting must be considered software development), download
Radio and you'll get a more concise language with more
flow-control options, a built-in database, *many* more
built-in functions, and a full TCP/IP & web development
implementation.
<
http://radio.userland.com>
in Frontier for Classic, any OSA language could be used (so
you could, for instance, integrate old AppleScript code with
new Frontier code). but i don't see this option in Radio for
X, so i'm not sure whether it represents a deficiency in OSA
on X, or just a missing feature in Radio.
--
steve harley email@hidden
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