Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
- Subject: Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 17:20:37 +0100
John C. Welch wrote:
> > "officially approved" VB-equivalent platform.
>
>VB however, is NOT an end user language.
>
>The idea that you can create a language that will perfectly satisfy both
>programmers and non-programmers is a chimera.
Umm, this was exactly my point. Right now we've got Automator at one end, ObjC at the other and AppleScript in the middle, and that Apple needs to replace that one language in the middle with two new ones: one to cater to pro and semi-pro developers, the other to cater specifically to end-users. AppleScript doesn't satisfy either requirement terribly well. (BTW, anyone about to tell me that AS is a good end-user language, please spend some time actually researching the subject first. Because I have, and while AppleScript may be marginally nearer to that goal than more geek-oriented language it is still a long, long way away from what a real end-user language should be.)
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