Re: Sal
Re: Sal
- Subject: Re: Sal
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:28:10 -0500
On 11/17/2016 10:00 AM, edmund ronald wrote:
Maybe Apple could fund a modern cross-platform open source automation
tool.
Shell scripting and Applescript should have stayed in the last
century, with the excellent Ford Model T.
Edmund
Nobody has mentioned the earlier action that killed the Macintosh
Programming Workshop, MPW, that was the way I made Excel work the way I
wanted. My three 8500's running OS 9 have been much more usable than my
first of the "UNIX" machines, a G4 which has a burnt out power supply.
The condition now is 6 boxes with "modern", meaning made by Intel,
machines. Apple figured out how to count bytes backwards long ago
leaving Motorola to its automotive path.
This is coming to you from a Linux box running on a "found at a disposal
company" Intel box. It's pretty simple and provides for a text editor
using which I can use the likes of curl and perl to do what I really
need to get things done. It reminds me of how I did things on computers
owned by the US Navy between 1963 and 1984. Some not quite finished, but
free, software is coming along with LibreOffice and OpenSCAD available
for my use and changing things I don't like by recompiling here on my
machine if I want. No charge and no waiting time.
I used Cshell in the past and I still do. Ubuntu wants everyone to
change to BASH. I see that as a start toward Apple's thinking which I
dislike. I hope they're not successful but what maintains is my ability
to change it myself.
When Apple wanted the source language of programs I wrote for my own
purposes so they could approve before I was allowed to install them on a
Macintosh that I paid for I WAS UPSET.
The really important thing is that my AAPL stock has a basis cost of
about $0.25 per share and I have enough to retire on.
Yes MPW still works on my three 8500 machines but I am in the process of
converting my personal financial records, now Excel, to libreOffice. The
lady of the house, who was president of a Mac user group in Colorado
Springs, still likes the iPhone and the newest iMac. Neither can do the
technical work I need even if I could get it approved.
Steve was interested in music and getting the WWW to handle its
distribution. Methinks he is looking down at a success.
Anyone want a watch?
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