Re: for a living
Re: for a living
- Subject: Re: for a living
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:46:08 -0400
"dbit" wrote:
> Do any of you program applescript for a living, or is it more a helpful way of
> making your work processes more efficient?
Do you live around here or ride a bike?
Did you walk to school or bring your lunch? ;)
Did anyone else experience those kinds of "joke questions" as a child?
It really used to freak me out when my uncle would respond to my string of
questions (usually about whatever he was taking apart) with a string of his
own.
The desired effect was usually achieved...me walking off trying to wrap my
kid-head around this bizarre logic.
'dbit'...I'm not sure the 'or' helps your question here.
Wouldn't it be plausible that some of those who find efficiencies in the use
of AppleScript might also be able to communicate the benefit of those
efficiencies to others...and even commercially engage in the provision of
the services designed to achieve those efficiencies?
Isn't the real question:
Are AppleScript cabals disrupting regional economies and contributing to the
growing trend in consolidation of market power in the hands of a relatively
few information gatekeepers?
There are folks here who sell software, provide
services, write books, make workshops, and even deal
in the import/export of AppleScript and AS-related products.
(The use of Australian script-smugglers by French colonialist
corporations has been roundly condemned and the Paris-Bali-Melbourne
cartels have been under extreme pressure to stop getting caught.)
There are some French sympathizers here, who all wear berets. [*]
There are moguls, moles, hapless wanderers, volunteers here.
There are indentured servers and Shanghaied scripters here.
There are thieves, beggars, Queens and gentry.
It's Feudal, mostly, with signs of a large peasantry.
Popular uprising among the lowest AppleScript classes
('string', 'international text', &c.) is minimal,
for all the same reasons that any advanced technological
society produces docile classes.
Coercion is not uncommon.
(see also:
"Surviving as Plain Text in a Growing Unicode Economy",
and "Unicode: Cultural Garden or Global Parking Lot?",
both by Burt Ascii.)
Marx and Engels (and Wood) would all conclude that every
role found in capitalist economy is also represented here,
in some form.
Is AppleScript a helpful way of making work processes more efficient?
You bet. Just look at the time I have on my hands!
Please remit payment for this reply to:
--
Gary
[*] "Vive la resistance et please hand me my beret", a song popularized
last year by the Serbian dance band "Scripta Ljudi", is the anthem of the
anti-capitalist scripters union. Some claim that if you play the vinyl track
of this song in reverse, you can clearly hear Shelly Winters recite an
entire AppleScript handler for sorting a list of strings by color.
I love the chorus:
"As list, as string, as list, as you wish, my handler...we're all illegal
aliases in one big stack...tell me to run, tell me to quit, tell me to go on
and handle it...hand me my beret...go on and handle it...oop, oop, oop..."
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