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Forward movement vs Tilting at windmills [Re: Apple script and hypercard]
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Forward movement vs Tilting at windmills [Re: Apple script and hypercard]


  • Subject: Forward movement vs Tilting at windmills [Re: Apple script and hypercard]
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:52:56 +0000

edmund ronald wrote:
I'm not signing this - I WANT AUTOMATION, MODERN AUTOMATION, NOT THIS
LEGACY  PIG.

Then please file two Radar tickets, fifteen minutes of your time:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2016/Nov/msg00077.html

That gets you SwiftAutomation in 10.13, which snares thousands of fresh exciting new Swift developers into Automation's net, scriptability into hundreds of fresh exciting new macOS Apps.

That in turn gets Apple to think…"Oh-ho, have we missed a highly leverageable opportunity here?"

...

'Cos if you can get client-side AE support into Swift for 10.13, the next task is to get brand new AE support into the server-side (Swift-based Apps) as quickly as possible after that.

And once you've got both of those pieces in place—bearing in mind that a modern alternative to CocoaScripting has the chance to cook in all the new features modern IPC now requires—sandboxing (user safety and security is mandatory #1), self-generating documentation (cos why write interface descriptions twice when you can write one and get the second for free?), full interactive inspection/exploration (SD fans will know exactly what I mean), official specification (so programmers now know how to implement scripting support right!)—you can you can just swap out Apple events for whatever the hell transport system you like—Mach messages, HTTP, even some rivals' protocols we will not mention here—and get it for free on iOS and internet as well! Now you have complete, mature, PROVEN Automation infrastructure available EVERYWHERE!

...

And while that ton of bricks is going down, you cook up a new "English-like" end-user scripting language that actually works right—one which can be DICTATED as well as written and read—and you call it SiriScript so everybody—EVERYBODY—on this planet knows EXACTLY what that is for.

And that's your game-changing SiriAutomation ready to deliver as well. Cos now instead of being the exclusive domain of a few thousand AppleScript holdovers, you've got a BILLION[1] new users ready to market.

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Look, I might be manic at the moment (sorry 'bout that), but I'm not delusional: I've been formulating this plan silently for several years now—almost since poor appscript landed in the trashcan. As long as the energy lasts I will try to extract useful work from it, but there's only one of me whereas there's a thousand of you; and millions more beyond you. So while I can cope with the scutwork of making SwiftAutomation code work, you lot need to pull yourselves together to do the absolutely critical work of *selling it*… to yourselves, to everyone else, and to Apple!

SwiftAutomation—that is a concrete product, ready to drop into 10.13dev right now. OUR opportunity to win Mac Automation its first new market and first 1000 customers in 20 years. Less than 6 months in which to achieve this (i.e. BEFORE WWDC17). Needs its disastrous tutorial page sorted out (I've learned how to do it now, so just time and new words—and hopefully someone willing to copy edit it for everyone else <hint>).

So start selling OUR product please, right now. Otherwise go start packing, cos if Swift won't Automate THE TOTAL TAR out of your Mac in macOS 10.13, by the time 10.16 comes around the only Automation you'll be doing worth a crap is when you're on Windows instead.

Many thanks,

has

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[1] Swift Playgrounds? Please! Tim might as well stand on stage and cry "Homeopathy For Sale!" If only Seymour had Steve Jobs to market his Logo vision to the world: not only would it be used in every school now, but it would have fundamentally redefined what "school" means as well.

Seriously, go read Papert's Mindstorms—and if you still think Logo was "computer programming for driving a turtle" then it merely confirms how utterly School has ruined _your_ capacity to think for yourself as well.

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