Re: What to make of the "AppleScript Experience"
Re: What to make of the "AppleScript Experience"
- Subject: Re: What to make of the "AppleScript Experience"
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 20:52:26 -0700
At 1:53 PM -0400 7/21/03, Walter Purvis wrote:
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Should I conclude that Klaus is just some poor soul who went off his meds? I don't know...he seemed perfectly rational. And if he's not just a raving lunatic, then apparently there are some capabilities of AppleScript that I did not know about, and I would like to know more.
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Then, someone named Adrian R. Foltyn added a post to the AppleScript Experience thread that began "I hope anybody cares to know why Apple introduced AppleScript Studio in the first place. It was primarily meant for developers who wanted to develop small applications for a future Mac model called the Xpod." He then went on to spin a vision of a OS X running Palm-like supercomputer that seems like pure fantasy, but again, if it's not, I would like to know more... Is "Adrian R. Foltyn" yet another poor soul gone off his meds?
Don't ask me, I've gone off my meds too.
Personally, I think that's also a fine description of both of these posts.
However, computers are all about fantasy, so nothing's impossible. The key is defining your fantasy such that you can actually create it. This is what all programs do. They spin their own little fantasies and we interpret their results.
AppleScript is just another way of spinning. There are a mess of programs that do the same thing, differently. I think. ;)
The key is to have a problem that you want solved, or a notion that you want realized, or something for you to drive at. AppleScript is not a destination, it is a journey, and it can be a painful one, despite its deceptively simple syntax.
Or is your question really, what are the limits of AppleScript Studio applications? That's a much simpler thread to stick to, as opposed to the AppleScript Experience, which sounds like it involves a bunch of Hendrix played loud (as if there were any other way to play Hendrix).
I have to admit that I haven't really looked very closely at Apple's ASS, but that's mostly because I've learned to use AppleScript with no UI and don't see the need to have it butt into my scripts.
Jon
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