Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <b1mfth$c2$1@merope.saaf.se>, pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) 
wrote:

> The Macintosh came without programming langauges from the very
> beginning: the rationale was "the average computer user doesn't do
> any programming".  But with the recent introduction of Mac OS/X
> perhaps Apple let gcc and friends remain on the disk..... I don't
> know myself -- perhaps someone with access to Mac OS/X can check
> this out?

I don't do programming, but I know there are a bunch of programming 
tools that are available with Mac OS X.  They aren't installed by 
default, but they are freely available.

> But even Windows
> XP has two programming languages with the standard distribution:
> 1. Batch language -- start up a command prompt (also called a
>    "DOS Window" although this phrase really is incorrect) and
>    you'll have the command langauge of that prompt available
>    as a language.

By this rationale, Mac OS has had a programming language included for 
quite some time.  Applescript.  Lets you tell lots of programs what to 
do.

<http://www.apple.com/applescript/>

Greg B.

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