Re: What's the biggest barrier to wider AS adoption?
Re: What's the biggest barrier to wider AS adoption?
- Subject: Re: What's the biggest barrier to wider AS adoption?
- From: Timothy Bates <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 17:11:27 +1000
On 9/23/01 11:44 AM, "Helmut Fuchs" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I can tell you why I really _hated_ learning AppleScript and nearly
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gave up. There's so many (on first sight) illogical restrictions,
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Why is it, that I can't use filter reference forms on my own lists?
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Why can I set a property of every object of an application, whereas I
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can't on my own lists? Why is "exists" limited to application
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properties?
Everyone agrees that for AS not to treat its own primitives as objects is a
big problem, both for learning and for usage. Thankfully, making lists into
objects is on Chris Nebel's to-do list.
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P.S. Apple had a very beautiful programming language/environment
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called "DyLan" in the works.
But this is nothing like an easy-to use end-user scripting language. If
ditching Dylan allows Apple to put the resources needed into making
AppleScript the universal scripting language for OS X, then I will be well
satisficed.
tim
Dr Timothy Bates <
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Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS)
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