Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch> writes: }Tom Pollard <pollard@schrodinger.com> writes: }>Until it's easier to generate AppleEvents, I'd say it's inaccurate to call }>MacPerl a "scripting language" at all. } }Doesn't AppleScript and Frontier embedding make Perl a scripting language ? I'd say it does, and in fact, I'd say that the situation is much the same on Unix. On neither platform would I use Perl if all I wanted to do is to script other applications. That's what the shells and AppleScript are for. But if need system/MacPerl::DoAppleScript/etc., they're there. In fact, I'd love for someone to define "scripting language". The definition would have to be pretty convoluted to exclude MacPerl, IMHO. } }>If you accept that, then it would make sense for the }>'system' command and the backtick notation to interpret their arguments as }>AppleScript in MacPerl. } }I don't see how that would be an advantage over MacPerl::DoAppleScript. Nor do I. } }Matthias } }----- }Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch> http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri } "Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The } courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to hide the bodies } of the people I had to kill because they pissed me off" -------- Paul J. Schinder NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 693 Greenbelt, MD 20770 schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch