[TxMt] math bundle feature request

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Dec 8, 2006, at 8:31 AM, janssen at ccr.jussieu.fr wrote:
> Shouldn't these things made to work
> under (well may be not all but) most language settings? If I was  
> fluent in
> Applescript I would certainly contribute (Perhaps Xmas time is just  
> the right
> time to change my current knowledge iof 'languages').

In some sense this is really a shortcoming of AppleScript. No  
developer should possibly have to know what name a menu item shows to  
the user, really. Just supporting a couple more languages is not the  
answer, this is really something that AppleScript should be fixing,  
and it's not likely to happen I'm afraid.

In general, AppleScript is really a last resort. We really don't want  
to be using it to communicate with R, but we haven't found another  
simple and clear way to do that.

It is really very slow, and for simple math calculations I would  
really recommend the Ruby or the bc way. Btw did you try the Ruby  
command? If so, what were its shortcomings, that made it unsuitable  
for what you want to do?

> JJ

Haris