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If you had to choose a friend from ancient Greece, Socrates may be an interesting choice. You two could sit down for hours reflecting on and discussing the state of things. However, if you needed someone who can get things done, someone in command, you’d probably want to move a few hundred years into the future to ancient Rome, and consider someone like Julius Caesar.
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© 2004 Hanaan Rosenthal
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Rosenthal, H. (2004). Giving Commands. In: AppleScript: A Comprehensive Guide to Scripting and Automation on Mac OS X. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5352-5_7
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