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Subject: Re: Sal
From: William Adams <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:37:15 -0500

I wrote up and sent an e-mail --- hope it helps.

If Applescript goes away, that's one less bulletpoint I have in why people should consider Macs.

William

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Doug McNutt <email@hidden> wrote:

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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