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: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:10:53 -0800
At 6:40 PM +1100 1/29/02, Shane Stanley wrote:
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Oh, I think I understand where you're coming from, and I can see the logic.
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But I'm a bit surprised at the source of such heresy...
I guess I'm in for heresy by thought and heresy by word, but not deed, yet.
Like I said, the argument for simply carbonizing Jon's Commands isn't lost. It's just that I'm coming to grok where we are arriving with Mac OS X. As an apprentice old fart, I have significant unix experience. However, I fled unix for Apple and now I'm back, but with Apple too.
So I've got a Unix supercomputer in front of me at work that vaguely resembles my old Mac. It's got two 21" monitors and a 400 MHz G3. It runs plenty fast, except when compiling, but that's *never* fast enough. Now it also has an admittedly arcane but immensely powerful command set which I can make use of.
Now I'm as much of a fan of AppleScript as the next guy, but frankly I see that hooking it up to the power of unix is in everyone's best interests. Ed Lai has made a fine start with his KinderShell, which makes more and more sense as I think about it, to wrap shell commands in AppleScript. Consider it AppleScript syntax tempering the horror of unix.
As such, I think it deserves more thought and perhaps even blasphemy and heresy.
Jon