OT: 10.4 "Automator" = Applescript?

[Pierre Sahores]

In addition to what you are saying, Richard, i have the feeling that 
there is some of the good old "KeyQuencer" ground code behind 
Automator...

> Todd Higgins wrote:
>> On Apr 25, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Kurt Kaufman wrote:
>>> Anyone know if Mac 10.4's "Automator" is a collection of 
>>> customizable pre-fab Applescripts? As the author of a few Rev 
>>> utilities that use Applescript, I'm wondering if Applescript will 
>>> continue as before?
> ...
>> Applescript will continue on strong as ever.  Automator is just a 
>> tool that will help people harness the power of Applescript without 
>> having to learn how to program.  Or so the marketing speak goes. ; > 
>> )
>
> From the session I attended at WWDC last year on Automator, it appears 
> to be merely a point-and-click way to write AppleScript, just like 
> interface for making scripts that you can use with Flash in leiu of 
> directly typing, or the point-and-click scripting found in FileMaker 
> Pro for years (and a bit like an old flow-chart GUI for scripting 
> graphics apps in UNIX called, if memory serves, AVS, with its 
> structured inputs and outputs).
>
> Apple's implementation is in some ways more graceful, but the central 
> concept of making a point-and-click UI alternative for scripting isn't 
> new.
>
> Just the same, once the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field is turned 
> up to full volume at Tiger's release, we can expect the lay and even 
> trade press to momentarily forget the history of scripting 
> environments and declare that they've seen God.
>
> ;)
>
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