Re: Apple script and hypercard
Re: Apple script and hypercard
- Subject: Re: Apple script and hypercard
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:00:07 +0000
On 21/11/2016 13:39, William Adams wrote:
Arguably HyperCard was replaced by AppleScript Studio --- I'd like to
see some nice successor to AppleScript and Automator --- the big thing
is, I have to have legacy support for AppleScript until the apps
which in question which I drive with it have been replaced, and when
they are replaced, I need some suitable replacement automation system,
and it needs to be something which affords a strategic advantage and
reason to buy a Mac.
Using JavaScript, which is also available for the Windows versions of
the apps in question is not an option, since at that point, might as
well run Windows, since it runs there.
Why? The benefit was NEVER in the choice of language; it was in the
ability to tie straight into thousands of apps and harness that
*collective power* for yourself. Keeping Automation locked to
AppleScript is what's been killing it the last 20 years.
You want a language? I'll give you a language: Logo. Wipes AppleScript
straight across the floor and into the trash. And if Bill Atkinson had
been a Lisp person instead of a Pascal one, it would've been too.
But never too late to start.
Which is why, for the last couple years, I've been quietly pondering
ways to take the end-user programming concepts and features I've been
using in kiwi [1] (which in turn I stole from AppleScript, Logo, and
near everything else) and make them work in a general-purpose scripting
and automation language too.
That language, entoli, were I not a lazy toad (and Swift language such a
pain in the butt), might even be shipping already in which case I'd have
just bounced a demo at the Siri team and be waiting for jaws to be
picked back up. Because the power of Automation is not in being able to
speak complex instructions to a computer and have it perform those for
you, it is in being able to combine simple instructions into powerful
behaviors in advance, then trigger those behaviours with a simple spoken
phrase of your own. And since written entoli is just words, phrases,
commas, and full stops, guess why I already pinched as nickname
"SiriScript" for it as well?
Never mind the mere 25 years of AppleScript; 10,000 years of the written
word and the entire _civilizations_ we've built on top of it, and Tim
and Craig think we should toss it all now? Steves preserve us!
has
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[1] A special-purpose tags+rules language for rendering templated
artworks in Illustrator/InDesign <http://mantasystems.co.uk/docs.html>,
and where I've been growing my understanding and insights into end-user
programming for the last 3-8 years.
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