Re: WWDC and AS
Re: WWDC and AS
- Subject: Re: WWDC and AS
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 14:36:20 -0600
On 4/1/04 1:39 PM, "has" <email@hidden> wrote:
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If Apple seriously wants to get developers to _use_ application
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scripting, they should present it to them in a form developers can
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actually work with. That means cleaning up their existing APIs and
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documentation, and ensuring first-rate application scripting support
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is present in developer-friendly languages like Perl, Python, Java
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and Unix shells [4]. Put solid Apple event-based scripting interfaces
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and attachability into XCode, IB and other development tools. Break
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the fingers of any remaining vi holdouts, and take away their shells
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so they can't use *nix pipes for a week. Do this, and you won't be
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able to keep the blighters away from it!
If Apple seriously wants to get developers to use application scripting,
they need to use it themselves in their "serious" applications.
If Apple doesn't think AppleScript has a place in its own "serious"
applications, (read ALL the pro apps), then why should anyone else.
"Do as I say, not as I do" is NOT leadership, and it never works anyway.
john
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"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
--Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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