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: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 05:31:06 -0400
On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 01:53 PM, Walter Purvis wrote:
What am I to make of the AppleScript Experiece posts? They are
intriguing, but...
If you print them you could make origami animals.
Klaus Umland wrote "The greatest thing about AppleScript and ASS is
the ability to compile the
scripts into actual machine code," and "In less than a month, I had a
fully-working, optimized Mach kernel written in AppleScript thanks to
Apple's ASS."
This is equivalent to saying that one has made cold fusion Jello.
Then I asked "What the heck does this mean? Is this actually possible?
What would that even mean?"
Klaus responded, "If you don't know, I'm not gonna explain it to you,
stupid."
i.e. "I can't explain it to you. I am a troll"
Klaus had claimed to be working for Apple, so I replied, "That's an
odd way for an Apple employee to be addressing a customer on the
AppleScript mailing list -- I don't think you will be an Apple
employee for very long with that kind of attitude... But anyway, if
you actually know something about how to compile AppleScript to
machine code (which I haven't heard of before) please share the
details with the list..."
And then I never heard anything again.
on criticism
set underRock of Klaus to true
end
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.
Yes.
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?
Self-medicating, more likely.
Should I just forget about these posts and add those two names to my
kill file, or what?
-Walter
Interestingly these two posts have never crossed my mail server. But
then again it IS a artificially intelligent mail server that I wrote
entirely in Cantonese Perl.
PS
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