Re: Interesting... AppleScript X ??
Re: Interesting... AppleScript X ??
- Subject: Re: Interesting... AppleScript X ??
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:37:40 -0700
On 9/26/02 2:38 AM, "has" <email@hidden> wrote:
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No doubt. Having Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. bundled as standard is very nice
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and all, but nothing beats having some unique intellectual property under
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one's belt to really stand out from the crowd. I'll be interested to see
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just what they do come up with. I'm sceptical that they can do a really
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good job without changing a bunch of existing stuff (which means we'll all
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have to rewrite a whole bunch of our scripts to get them to work again),
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but if they do bite this bullet then more power to them and it'll
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definitely be the right choice for the future.
As I understand it, AppleScript X (or 2.0) will be an alternate, parallel
system to 1.x. You'll be able to choose which you want, so it won't break
older scripts. I know nothing more than that, but my guess is that they're
planning to make it a "serious" programming language that accesses the new
system at a basic level.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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