Re: re. lotteries, alternatives, new dawns, etc.
Re: re. lotteries, alternatives, new dawns, etc.
- Subject: Re: re. lotteries, alternatives, new dawns, etc.
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:00:27 +0100
Jon Pugh wrote:
>[1] Personally I suspect Apple missed their best chance for
success here by not going with appscript, but we'll need to wait
till Leopard ships to see how good Scripting Bridge actually is and
if it can manage to find any significant traction.
Dude, you're channeling Dave Winer.
Unavoidable mental image. Euwww. Do Not Want.
Seriously, it'd be great if Apple were to come out with something
better than appscript - I'm a fundamentally lazy person and would be
quite happy to put my feet up and let someone else do all the hard
work for a change. But given what I do know/can guess of Scripting
Bridge and Apple's track record of x-steps-forward-and-y-steps-back
with other AppleScript/OS X technologies (Cocoa Scripting, AS Studio,
RubyOSA) I'm not holding out a huge amount of hope for that happening
in Leopard.
(Oh, and since you mention it, looking at where Apple's AppleScript-
only strategy has gotten us after 15 years, I don't think Dave Winer
- attitude issues aside - was entirely wrong either...)
Anyway, consider it an obligatory disclaimer - I couldn't reply to
Shane's "no new dawn" statement without mentioning Scripting Bridge
in some way, but I can hardly do so without flying the flag for the
home team either. :)
has (currently moving to Curmudgeon's Corner with Messrs Aker,
Delacour and Welch; Barbershop, Yorkshiremen, Horsemen comparisons
likely to follow)
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