On 1 Dec 2014, at 02:37, Luther Fuller < email@hidden> wrote:
Once upon a time, many years ago, I would spend perhaps 10 minutes per day manually...
Yes, of course, I dare say everyone on this list can complete this sentence with the amazing things we can all do with AppleScript.
Yes, of course, WE value AppleScript (that's why we're on this list, presumably).
None of that was ever in question.
My point was that we're a tiny minority of Apple's customer base and to suggest that without AppleScript the mac is useless is, to put it mildly, something of an exaggeration. I talk to a lot of mac users (I work in a university, and macs have become pretty popular in the classroom among students in the last couple of years). Most of them have never heard of AppleScript. Those that have, don't know what its for.
Even among mac-savvy folk in places like ASC and AppleSeed, AppleScript is barely on the radar. It wasn't that long ago I was arguing with a developer in one of those places who kept insisting AppleScript couldn't do anything other than script the user interface and that it was a pointless technology OS X would be better of without. If even long-time mac developers are ignorant of what AS is and can do, there's really not much argument that the same isn't true of the mac community at large.
Best
Phil
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