Re: Apple script and hypercard
Re: Apple script and hypercard
- Subject: Re: Apple script and hypercard
- From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 19:38:53 +0000
- Thread-topic: Apple script and hypercard
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>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.
Has,
That may be from your prospective as a developer programmer. But many of
us AppleScripter are people who you've said before don't exist.
(Non-programmers using AppleScript intensively, professionally and with
great success).
For me, the language was and still is a major benefit if not the most
important benefit.
It's why I never adapted Frontier, for example.
Speaking of Frontier, from the very start Apple made an effort to allow
developers to work with the AppleEvent model using whatever language they
chose. They even delayed the original release of AppleScript to
accommodate those (which allowed Winer to release Frontier before
AppleScript was released).
But none of the other scripting languages really caught on among scripters
or developers.
And while I applaud your efforts to do it right, I'm worried that your
version of done right from the start will pretty much require drastic
language changes that I don't want.
It also seems like you have a particular axe to grind against Apple and
the AppleScript development team and are now taking advantage of this new
batch of FUD to push your agenda, which is not the same as mine or many
others.
Plus, seriously, I don't think you have the temperament, track record or
social skills to lead a movement of appleScripters.
I'd be afraid that could easily backfire.
ES
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