Why is there no OS X Automator clone for Linux? (was: Serious OO/Debian problem...)

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Jul 14 16:05:02 UTC 2006


On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 08:14:36AM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Any time someone suggests Flash, I wonder what the problem was that
> they could possibly have picked that as a solution...  But that seems
> an aside...

Certainly not a particularly good way to script applications.

> Yup, that definitely is an instance of a technology conforming to what
> I was suggesting.  AppleScript was a "system-controlling script"
> system going back to the days when MacOS was rather more primitive
> than it is today...

What we really need is AREXX.  Or something like it with a similarly
almost universal application support for it.

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