Re: [OT] AppleScript scripts versus Shell scripts
Re: [OT] AppleScript scripts versus Shell scripts
- Subject: Re: [OT] AppleScript scripts versus Shell scripts
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 20:51:30 -0500
On 01/26/2003 20:15, "Randal L. Schwartz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>>>> "John" == John C Welch <email@hidden> writes:
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John> Really...care to detail the Perl dictionaries for manipulating
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John> functions in the Unix version of FrameMaker?
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None needed. There's a CLI interface to fmmaker, if I recall. And
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co-workers of mine have written Perl programs to "script" various
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actions of that CLI.
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Right...it's not a *perl* interface. It's a generic interface. And at what
level.
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The beauty of it is, Perl doesn't need every program to add stuff just
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to get it to work with Perl. Perl uses the standard Unix interfaces
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to provide controlled input, parse the output, and manage the starting
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and stopping of processes.
Yep...i/o control. That's all. AppleScript operates at a very different
level, because it's *designed to do different things.* which is why the
comparisons between AppleScript and Perl are *dumb*.
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Unlike AS, which requires that *every* process cooperate somehow.
Because AS manipulates internals on the apps, which Perl doesn't do.
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Please, I'm not interested in an appendage length contest here. I'm
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just trying to draw a parallel. To the degree that AS lets a
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poweruser script MacOS, Perl is that same tool for Unix. That's
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all I'm saying.
Just keep in mind your comparing two different tools with different
objectives.
john
--
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- FTD
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Al Tucker
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