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Re: AppleScript


  • Subject: Re: AppleScript
  • From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:05:43 -0600
  • Thread-topic: AppleScript

On 12/07/2007 15:09 PM, "Paul Scott" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>> It's nice, or should be, that someone so high up has a
>> long and deep background in AppleScript. For all we know,
>> he may have helped save it at some endangered point in
>> the past.
>
> And for that we should be grateful? Personally, I'd like
> to see AppleScript replaced by ECMAScript with a DOM-like
> AOM (Application Object Model) interface.

And it would be useless for how many years while everyone updated
implementations and the rest. Even better, it would require years of dual
language support. That's a great idea.





If you want people to hate you.

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"There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is
to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and
destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."
- General George S. Patton, Jr.


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