OT: 10.4 "Automator" = Applescript?

[Kurt Kaufman]

RG wrote:

"...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..."

Perhaps I've mentioned this before, but nothing was so easy to use as Mac 
System 6's MacroMaker.
Just start it up, go through whatever process is required, save the Macro, 
and you're done.  It might not have been very elegant visually (everything 
including Menu pulls and button clicks was visible when running the macros, 
and it sort of reminded me of early film comic slapstick), but it seemed 
always to work no matter what the application.  As someome who has slugged 
through Applescript GUI scripting, I miss a tool so simple and yet so 
effective. THAT'S the way a macro tool "for the rest of us" should operate!