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Five reasons not to implement scripting additions (and to implement scriptable applications instead): • Scripting additions run in the target process, giving them the potential of crashing the target application or subtly corrupting user data. A scriptable application is its own process and is both protected from other processes and prevented from damaging them directly. • Scripting additions are reliant upon and limited by the services available within the processes they run in. • Scripting additions directly extend the Applescript language, which means they have no protection from conflicting with other scripting additions or with future changes to the Applescript language. • Scripting additions are more limited in what they can express. • Scripting additions are a legacy hack from the past which solved problems in System 6 that no longer exist in Mac OS X and should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. It is difficult to imagine a scenario in which they are absolutely necessary. -- Chris Page - Dylan Programmer Open Source Dylan Compilers: <http://www.opendylan.org/> |
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