Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
- Subject: Re: AppleScript and shell scripting
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:15:45 -0600
At 19:51 +0100 7/30/07, has wrote:
> Looking at the Unix shells, you get the impression that the evolution of text-based interfaces stopped about 30 years ago and hasn't moved since.
Apple's own Macintosh Programmer's Workshop - MPW - was a real improvement on a text-based interface to UNIX-like command lines. Well, emacs was also around for REAL UNIX boxes and UNIX-like must be taken the way English-like is in AppleScript. The commands were strange to the classic UNIX audience.
But Apple refused to port MPW to OS neXt and that's part of the reason this is being prepared on an 8500.
Bare Bones has partially filled the void with what they call BBEdit worksheet files that do offer in line shell commands but it's not nearly as comfortable to use as MPW. At least you can select some text and poke the ENTER key to execute the selected text as a shell command. But unlike MPW you get a different environment for each open worksheet, you can't redirect output to another open window, and you can't respond to commands that ask for user input.
Now we get X-code. Sometimes I think that's Apple's way to be sure that developers never try to do something that hasn't already been thought about and included in a framework.
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