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: Sat, 7 May 2005 14:53:50 +0100
John C. Welch wrote:
> >> I haven't seen anything that's better enough than applescript at the task of
> >> the end user language.
> >
> > There's no shortage of good ideas and interesting implementations out there.
> > What's really need is for a company like Apple to take the best of these,
> > package them in its own inimitable way, and really commercialise and
> > popularise the heck out of it.
>
>Has, this will take, literally YEARS. [...] Two years at a minimum, and that's with massive new
>hiring and the entire team doing NOTHING ELSE, and that's just the language.
>Not the IDE.
Really? You must tell Bill Atkinson that; I'm sure he'd be very surprised. And don't forget, back then Bill was pioneering brand new unexplored territory with only a miniscule amount of system APIs and machine resources for support. So what's the excuse now?
Look, the sort of product I talking about is, roughly speaking, just a more granular version of Automator, not Perl 6. Something that a small, talented and knowledgeable dev team could put together for the next major OS release if handed a project brief, a copy of "Cocoa for Dummies", and told to get on with it. Heck, for all we know Apple could be working on some of these ideas for Automator 2.0 as we speak. But if all you're going to come up with is reactionary hyperbole and diversionary strawmen then this is not a useful discussion and I have better things to do with my time.
has
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