Re: Holy Recordability Batman
Re: Holy Recordability Batman
- Subject: Re: Holy Recordability Batman
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:25:39 -0400
On 07/11/2003 23:26, "Gary Lists" <email@hidden> wrote:
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While I don't know Avie, and have no desire to enter an argument that does
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not matter to me (I think ;), I did find the choice of quote very curious,
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and on that point, I'll venture:
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<flame retardant>
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John, did you include the quote to remind yourself of Roosevelt's words? ;)
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Aren't you 'the critic' here, pointing out 'how the doers of deeds might
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have done them better'? Do you really mean that 'the credit belongs to the
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man [sic] who ... errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great
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enthusiasms' ?
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(Admittedly, I don't know whether you are 'in the arena' and
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'striv[ing] valiantly' or not.)
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An odd choice to follow your comments, I thought.
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Or maybe I didn't make a connection that you'd hoped.
My problem...in a nutshell is this...there are people at Apple who, look at
the (by now) millions of lines of Applescript code that have saved Apple's
bacon time and time again...and listen to the customers that say "If we have
to rewrite workflow, it's going to be in VBA on Windows"...and don't care.
It's give some BS song and dance about "AppleScript makes your application
more valuable to your customers", but leaving off the bit about "Unless you
work for Apple writing Pro apps, in which case, we don't care about
AppleScript, and you'll have to fire us to get it in our product."
It reeks of hypocrisy to say "We eat our own dogfood" and then not have a
single application that is the outstanding example of AppleScriptability
unless it is the only app in that category with a dictionary...hence iDVD
wins, although that does have a hell of a dictionary too.
Apple needs to not just talk, but *LEAD*. As of yet, they aren't. And it's a
shame too, because until you put a dictionary in an app, you NEVER know just
how powerful that application is.
Without a dictionary, I can only do what the developer allows me to do.
Nothing more. I can only be as innovative as some person I don't know will
let me be. I may have a lot of freedom in that framework, but in the end, if
I want to take a 90-degree turn that the programmer didn't allow for, I
can't.
AppleScript removes that wall. It lets me do things that no one but me will
ever think of. It lets me chain tools together in ways that no one
developer, hell not every developer at Apple combined will ever think of,
because THEY AREN'T ME! Or Jon Pugh. Or John Delacour. Or Paul Berkowitz, Or
Emmanuel, Michelle, Dan, or anyone else doing scripts. It is the ultimate
arrogance to think that an app doesn't need a dictionary, doesn't need to be
scriptable just because the project manager can't imagine using it.
So I'll be talking to Media 100 about some things. Not Apple. And if they
come to fruition, then Media 100 will get the kudos for their foresight, and
willingness to lead. And FCP will be mentioned in those kudos...as a nice
app, but totally unsuited for real-world production use, because someone was
too damned shortsighted to see beyond their little world.
john
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Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europe vincendarum.
(Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe.)
Jeff La Grua
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