Re: ns-do-applescript

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Short, short version: imagine that Sun built a version of solaris that
  > almost entirely replaced "shell" with a variant of Java that didn't
  > *inititally* come with a stand-alone interpreter, but did add one later.
  > Then: s/Sun/Apple/, s/solaris/macosx/, and s/Java/AppleScript/.

Sorry, I can't follow that.  I know nothing about Applescript except 
what little I've learned from this conversation.

I'd rather not learn enough about Applescript to be able to judge
whether using it is ok.  I hope that others will understand our
general criteria, and the specific facts of these issues, enough
to be able to make a thoughtful decision about them.

One possible approach would be to delete the Lisp-level interface to
run Appescript code, and add C-level support for doing certain
system-independent tasks by invoking Applescript.  I am not saying
that is the one and only right approach, or that it is the best
approach.  Only that it is one more to consider.

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