"Jonathan N. Little said:
Your remarks "AppleScript for one thing has been part and parcel of Macs
through many OSs. And there are many facilities in Macs to automate
stuff apart" seemed to suggest a feature reserved to Macs
And what did my phrase "Old Mac hands..." suggest to you? What does
anything suggest? The fact is that almost anything that is said can be
interpreted in many ways. There were other interpretations open to you.
Like, here is dorayme, poor sod, just chewing the fat and saying what it
has experienced, no more, no less. No heavy implications or suggestions.
More an agreement with the person to whom it was replying than anything
else.
They said, when I left my home planet, do I want to take an interpreter
along. I said, "Hey, I was top of the English class in my year and I am
going to an English speaking country, why do I need an interpreter. They
said "It's your life dorayme, have it your way!" Soon as I got here, I
knew exactly what they meant, it was raining like hell, awful day and
the first human that came up to me said "G'day!" and I immediately
argued with him.
I had not learnt Australian. I should have brought an
interpreter/chaperone/aide along. Such an aide could have edited my
posts.
Said "Mac folks I know"
My database? Not sure what that has to do with Mac and batch scripting.
I meant the imaginary one consisting of your evidence for that Mac folk
are more ignorant than Windows folk in some respects (all good tabular
data when you do it right). There is a theoretical difficulty with
absolute clarity, every sentence needs to be charitably interpreted. But
I admit, perhaps it was a bit naughty of me not to have been clearer. OK?
I'll forgive you that you use a Mac ;-)
Personally I despise the Mac popping windows thingies
I have absolutely no idea what you mean? But this will not stop me
having the highest regard for your coding skills. Continue to use
Windows and your real name. I feel pretty easy going today. Almost human
after a weekend of delirious flu!
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