Re: Apple's Applescript doc [opinion]
Re: Apple's Applescript doc [opinion]
- Subject: Re: Apple's Applescript doc [opinion]
- From: Helmut Fuchs <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 02:00:51 +0200
At 16:30 Uhr -0700 20.09.2001, Chris Nebel wrote:
The Scripting Additions guide is still mostly accurate as far as it goes, but
the Finder Guide is completely obsolete.
Thanks Chris for at least acknowledging that some things obviously
never change - which is the low priority the AppleScript docs have at
Apple.
Having succesfully dealt with a lot of languages around, even strange
beasts like PERL or PL/SQL, one could think that AppleScript should
be easy to learn and handle. But the docs from Apple are VERY
incomplete, so that even an experienced software developer can have
hard times. And quite a few of them.
So while AppleScript is very beautiful in some respects, its very
ugly in others. Especially in terms of documentation, which makes a
lot of AppleScript a time consuming trial and error experience. I
don't want AppleScript to perform "magic", I want to KNOW what it
does... and that without going through MacsBug.
Perhaps that's one of the reasons why it's still only used by very
few? (Actually I think that's the MAIN reason...)
Helmut (who's sorry that the whole thing reads more polemic than
intended - must be the impossible deadline lurking around ;-)