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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet From: m-corn@uiuc.edu (Mike Corn) Newsgroups: alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,alt.org.team-os2,alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why no M$ AppleScript or Rexx imitations? Date: 30 May 1996 00:30:13 GMT Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 46 Message-ID: <4oiq6l$oev@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <4mlpnf$d4p@sidhe.memra.com> <4muhf9$giv@phobos.Candle.Com> <4npu4t$c7j@access1.digex.net> <4o0a60$9ff@kf8nh.apk.net> <petrichDs5Fv9.5Cr@netcom.com> <4ohcuv$772@ari.ari.net> <4oi5m1$5un@orion.cybercom.net><4mlpnf$d4p@sidhe.memra.com> <4muhf9$giv@phobos.Candle.Com> <4npu4t$c7j@access1.digex.net> <4o0a60$9ff@kf8nh.apk.net> <petrichDs5Fv9.5Cr@netcom.com> <4ohcuv$772@ari.ari.net> <4oi5m1$5un@orion.cybercom.net> <4oimos$7fd@nuke.csu.net> Reply-To: m-corn@uiuc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: antwerp-10.slip.uiuc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Newsreader: NeoLogic News for OS/2 [version: 4.5d6] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.fan.bill-gates:22731 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:108061 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:143266 comp.os.os2.advocacy:206041 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:109962 comp.os.linux.advocacy:50481 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20318 In message <4oimos$7fd@nuke.csu.net> - joseph coughlan <joseph_coughlan@otter.monterey.edu>29 May 1996 23:31:40 GMT writes: :> :>jerry@cybercom.net (Jerry Shekhel) wrote: :>>kiyoinc@kiyoinc.com wrote: :>>: :>>: The reason is that Microsoft believes that computing means moving a :>>: mouse, clicking on something. The Microsofties have never seen an IBM :>>: Robot Tape library loading chromium-dioxide tape cartridges and batch :>>: job after batch job grinding the data. "This can't be computing, :>>: there's no mouse, no Windows, no humans??? We're soooo confused!!!! :>>: There's no one to go anywhere today!!!" Another microsoftie lurches :>>: around, banging into the wall, making buzzing noises. "...sooo :>>: confused!" Smoke is pouring out of his ears... :>>: :>> :>>I guess Cory's never seen VB in conjunction with OLE Automation. "This :>>can't be scripting, there's no text screen, no Emacs, no pipes??? I'm :>>soooo confused!!! Time to think of a clever way to bash Microsoft!!!" :> :>You've not recognized the limition of NT, no scripting language. :> :>Brains Sturgill ported REXX to NT for purposes of addressing this :>limition. :> :>It exists. VB is not the answer. :> :>... :>>MS does it with VB or any other OLE Automation client. :> :>Which are not part of the base OS. :> :> Screw Sturgill. I downloaded and installed Object Rexx for NT/95 from IBM's ORexx site today on my NT work machine. Just wait until it catches on. M$ will announce "HEXX" for NT and the press will ooh and ahh, just like they did over M$ announcement of WHISPER. Mike ------------------ Mike Corn m-corn@uiuc.edu Damn! I forgot my mantra.