Alex Martelli wrote: > Don't neglect MacOSX -- it's quite secure, there are many open and free > applications, AND it has a decent architecture for the kind of tasks you > want to do (mostly intended for Apple's own Applescript language, but > all the interfaces are open and easily available to Python, which is > quite well supported on the Mac).
FWIW, there's a nice overview of the Open Scripting Architecture at: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/wcook/papers/AppleScript/AppleScript95.pdf It's not a perfect system and the quantity and quality of support varies from application to application and language to language, but I reckon the other *nixes could still learn a thing or two from it. HTH has -- http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
