Re: Finding Filenames that contain a certain string
Re: Finding Filenames that contain a certain string
- Subject: Re: Finding Filenames that contain a certain string
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:43:51 -0700
On 2007-07-20, at 06:05:16, Michelle Steiner wrote:
The difference is that "do shell script" involves using a scripting
language other than Applescript. In order to use it, you have to
know at least one additional scripting language.
True. Begs the question as to what is "pure English" though. That is
to say globally, English as a language is more successful than French
because it tends to absorb, merge, and bubble-sort to an official
dictionary entry by common usage whereas French is governed top-down
by a bunch of over-paid stuffed-shirts.
These days, a noticeable language trend is globish <http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globish>. And there is a parallel in computer
languages. For instance many have an 'exec' function which is a call
to another shell command (including other shell enabled languages).
Internally, the AppleEvent for 'do shell script' is «event sysoexec».
To my way of thinking, this emergent scripting language globish
("scriptish"), is the most functionality expressed in the most
succinct but logically extensible format. It's nature won't be
determined by language purists but rather arise from the common usage
of polyglots. IOW, shortest distance between two points.
Philip Aker
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