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: Joe Kelly <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:57:22 -0800
I'd trade backward compatibility for faster scripts, thread/multi-process
safety, and a modern scripting addition api (including a more intuitive
interface for implementors); I agree, keep the AppleScript syntax, but let's
move on. OS X has broken all my scripts anyhow, so now's a good time as any.
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From: Stockly, Ed [mailto:email@hidden]
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Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:56 AM
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To: 'email@hidden'
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Subject: Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
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> >me>>>AppleScripters should be protected from the "Horror of Unix".
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>g>>they are protected -- they can avoid it completely
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if they want.
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Yes, I've avoided it for a time by not Scripting OSX at all.
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The point here is that as commands available from Scripting
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Additions become available in OS X, they should maintain a
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'pure' AppleScript syntax and not inherit the syntax of shell
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scripting, C, Perl or whatever.
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