Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- Subject: Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:40:14 +1100
On 29/1/02 5:36 PM +1000, Jon Pugh, email@hidden, wrote:
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These unix shells will probably make most scripting additions unnecessary.
Unnecessary, perhaps, but no less important -- in fact, I'd argue it makes
them more so. This whole argument is a bit like saying the command line
makes lots of a GUI unnecessary -- true, but that's no argument for limiting
a GUI.
One of the great things about scripting additions is the way they behave
like they're part of the language. And falling back on "do shell script" is
a bit like saying, "If you want full scripting power, you have to know some
unix". I think that's something a lot of us feared would happen to AS, and
still want to avoid. I want to read dictionaries, not man pages.
Interestingly, in all the complaints about the lack of Jon's, no-one has
posted here the definitive set of handlers for deleting/copying/moving, &c.
I presume the people who know unix think it too trivial to bother, and the
rest of us are scratching out heads.
Oh, I think I understand where you're coming from, and I can see the logic.
But I'm a bit surprised at the source of such heresy...
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden