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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: User scripting in 7.x?
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Date: 14 Mar 91 14:26:09 GMT
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In article <27DF36E7.19478@orion.oac.uci.edu> bdugan@teri.bio.uci.edu (Bill Dugan) writes:
>something called "user scripting" which to me sounded like the closest thing
>to a CLI available for the Macintosh, although something more akin to
>Macromaker seems more likely.

There is a CLI for the Macintosh; the MPW shell.  You can say things like:

WriteNow foo*

('Course, you don't use '*', you use option-x.  This is an important
human-factors issue; it forces your hands into awkward positions to
reduce RMS :-))

I infer from other's comments that the user scripting will be more like
HyperTalk than anything else.  Whether it will have goodies like pattern
matching, I haven't heard.  HyperTalk doesn't (as of 1.x; haven't looked
much at 2.0 yet), if that is any indication.
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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