Re: on OSA (was Re: What's so great about AppleScript, anyway?)
Re: on OSA (was Re: What's so great about AppleScript, anyway?)
- Subject: Re: on OSA (was Re: What's so great about AppleScript, anyway?)
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:23:36 -0800
On 2008-12-20, at 09:10:40, has wrote:
- complete independence from Apple events (the two technologies may
be synergistic, but they should *not* be inter-dependent [3])
I didn't state it in my post to this list but I have devised a rather
complete plan to have all the structural aspects of AE.framework to be
available in CoreFoundation. Sketches (at least 3 of them) have been
posted to the Carbon list quite some time ago. Anyone familiar with
the 'class' hierarchy from AEDesc through AppleEvent can see what a
breeze that portion would be. A little more complicated is the added
CFNumber types (unsigned ints + special case for OSType), added
polymorphic functions, and query API set. However the benefits would
be extraordinary considering that the result would be a small but
extensible 'class' system expressible in C -- that means deployment
possibilities on all major platforms and adaptability to most object-
oriented languages.
The actual work of creating a CFScripting framework would be a
relatively simple technological feat and wouldn't require Apple to
expose their runtime implementation if they didn't want to. In fact I
have what is usually called 'proof of concept'.
The problems getting it to be implemented are almost entirely
political. But if some big shot at Apple can be convinced that this
CoreFoundation addition will reap benefits like their investment in
OpenCL <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/12/20/future_iphones_to_wield_opencl_acceleration.html
>, then maybe the current political implementation barrier won't be a
problem.
Philip Aker
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