I think there is some interest. I would even be interested in an applescript sig.
If you are interested in doing the tutorial how about June? And thanks for offering. Harry Wednesday, April 21, 20045:49 PMBill Risingbrising at Louisville.edu >On 4/21/04 13:33, Rex Baldazo wrote > >>Sorry, I must have missed the email. Unfortunately I'm no Applescript >>expert. I just commissioned the article from my author, who doesn't >>live in this area or else I'd ask him to present something. >> >>-----Original Message----- >>>[from Harry...] >>> >>> >>>I've been looking for an applescript presenter for several months, to no >>>avail. I have asked Rex to present but have not heard back from him. >>> > >If worse came to worst, I could give a small tutorial on AppleScript. The >only problem that I see is that I find AppleScript to be one of the most >unlearnable scripting languages I've ever used. > ><rant> >The /concept/ of having a scripting language which was >human-language-like so that there would be dialects in languages other >than English was a good idea. Imagine writing a program in English which >then, when opened by a Finn lookkeedd verryuu Fiinniissh. Unfortunately, >this, like other nice ideas (Newton, OpenDoc and the like) never went >beyond the original concept, so there is still only one dialect. > >The result has been a scripting 'language' with very idiosyncratic >syntax, and complete chaos from application to application, so that being >able to write a script for application A in no way means that it will be >easy to write a similar script for application B. ></rant> > >Still, it is possible to learn how to shorten some tediously repetitive >tasks with just a little syntax. It's just very hard to take that and do >anything else w/o buying a book. > >Bill > > >| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >| be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >| List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >| List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
