UNIX - The next killer app?
So I was thinking, what would be the next killer application for Mac OS X?
Thinking of some now, we have things like Watson, iSync, iChalk, OmniGraffle, etc. I think what would be really killer is to make stuff like PHP, Perl, SQL, CGI in a GUI wrapper so easy to use a near Macintosh novice could learn them.
I love the idea of using this stuff but it has a very large learning curve and it is very hard for me to read books or take classes on the subject and stay focused.
We have this incredible UNIX OS and I think taking advantage of its inner developer tools would be amazing and I think this would spawn out a lot of great creativity on the web, much like iMovie did for video, and .Mac and did for personal websites (and services.)
Your thoughts? <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
Thinking of some now, we have things like Watson, iSync, iChalk, OmniGraffle, etc. I think what would be really killer is to make stuff like PHP, Perl, SQL, CGI in a GUI wrapper so easy to use a near Macintosh novice could learn them.
I love the idea of using this stuff but it has a very large learning curve and it is very hard for me to read books or take classes on the subject and stay focused.
We have this incredible UNIX OS and I think taking advantage of its inner developer tools would be amazing and I think this would spawn out a lot of great creativity on the web, much like iMovie did for video, and .Mac and did for personal websites (and services.)
Your thoughts? <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
Comments
[ 01-29-2003: Message edited by: Mount_my_floppy ]</p>
No, no, no.
No.
Microsoft does that with their Windows 2000 Server package, and the results are many, many security and very few admins caring to fix them.
<strong>NO.
No, no, no.
No.
Microsoft does that with their Windows 2000 Server package, and the results are many, many security and very few admins caring to fix them.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Have you ever seen a real good, real secure product from Microsoft?
No! No! No! No!
Not to mention Windows is a lot less secure then UNIX. Anyone else's thoughts on the subject?
This is mainly due to the fact that a lot of
users were weaned on windows or the earlier
mac os's.
In reality its simply a slight change in the
way you think.Unix was designed around with the
following principles in mind.
1.everything is a file
2.each program is self sufficient & can be used
as a building block for other programs
Once an user "gets" it ..theres no going back
Sure you can put a candy coating on things but then you wouldt have the same level of understanding and a little knowledge never hurt
As for putting stuff like SQL, PHP, perl and whatever into a simple GUI...how do you expect Apple to accomplish that?
<strong>I agree with Jared on this one. Its just a shame that the mac world is dominated by people who continually claim that stuff "can't be done" or "is impossible" or "impractical" etc etc. whatever happened to taking risks to innovate?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Thank you! Look at what we are able to do software wise...when I saw Watson I was blown away. I had to sit back for a second and think about what exactly this program does.
They use to say the only way you could code a website is through HTML...then WYSIWYG comes along, PageMill...I used it and I made great websites with it...
I think it can be done, but the real question is, do people want to support the development of such tools? Looking at the feedback given here I think the answer is sadly no but more so based on the fact that they would not care to try.
I could see Apple using perl in the background for certain tasks, like "Rotate X logs Y often" or "Back-up X to Y if Z" with user defined variables or stuff like that, but making some magical script super-generator is not feasible.
Other than putting simple On/Off switches in an expanded Sharing/Services prefpane, I don't see how it could be done successfully.
[ 01-29-2003: Message edited by: Eugene ]</p>
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