AppleScript's pedigree?
AppleScript's pedigree?
- Subject: AppleScript's pedigree?
- From: chris stearns <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:11:25 -0800
AppleScript's ability to handle natural language is really what drew me into
trying to learn it (that and the 'wow' factor of the Script Editor's record
feature. I still grin when I use it). What really drew me in about
AppleScript is the progression that it permits you - from writing long,
clunky natural language scripts and 'recording' with the Script Editor
(where I am now) - to writing terse, fluid, powerful scripts. Succinctness
can be learned with time - it is not enforced at the outset. I've read up a
little bit on Perl, and while it seems extremely powerful, it is also
terribly obtuse. (I mean, trying to learn this:
my ($value1,$value2)=("something","whatever");
my ($var1,$var2) = ($1,$2) if ($value1=~/something/ && $value2=~/(what
+)(ever)/);
Is intimidating.)
Anyway, on to my point. Is AppleScript's syntax - with it's natural language
inclinations - an island unto itself, or did it develop out of other
scripting environments? What is AppleScript's pedigree?
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Chris Stearns
Editor, The Mezzanine Reader
http://www.mezzaninereader.com