On Mon, 19 May 2008 15:10:59 -0400, Jim Gibson wrote
(in article <190520081210592934%jimsgibson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
> In article <g0nckc02bkd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, John Drako
> <jbravo556@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 17 May 2008 14:43:11 -0400, Priam wrote
>> (in article <g0n954$ara$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>>
>>> tacit a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Linux doesn't do what I need it to do
>>>
>>> Once again, that's a given. Everybody on this group is a great
$250/hour
>>> artist, or sup****t to $250/hour artists. Everybody needs PhotoShop and
>>> FinalCut. The GIMP and Cinerella just won't do.
>>
>> I am a web developer. I develop and manage sites with Apache/MySQl/PHP
>> on my Mac. I have linux on my servers. But linux sucks ass in some
>> essential things that I need to do on the desktop. I have no objection
>> to using linux on my desktop if it handled all my needs like the Mac,
>> but it doesn't yet; and worse, it doesn't seem to ever will.
>>
>> You seem like a linux expert: is there something on linux that does the
>> job of AppleScript?
>
> You are wasting your time trying to have a meaningful dialog with a
> troll. Put him in your kill file, and we will all be better off for it.
Yeah, he ran smack into my killfile yesterday after he called me a
dunce. It obliterated every shred of his existence from this newsgroup.
> However, assuming your question is sincere: there are numerous choices
> for scripting under linux: bash, csh, perl, python, awk, sed, and many
> others I am sure.
It is sincere. I am familiar with the ones that you listed and they are
available on the Mac too, but some things in applescript can't be
accomplished by the above list.
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