Re: Briskets (perl)
Re: Briskets (perl)
- Subject: Re: Briskets (perl)
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:05:11 -0600
At 12:50 -0700 5/14/02, Lee Azzarello wrote:
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If I may, I'd like to get a feeling about code literacy and plain english
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metaphors. I'm just picking up AppleScript and I'm noticing that the
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"plain english" thing is more deceptive than it seems.
Yes!
It comes from Hypercard which was simple enough to make message passing understandable. The problem with AppleScript is that the plain English thing makes documentation so difficult. With so many ways to express things, searching documentation for a how-to becomes an exercise in guessing. Sometimes I'm tempted to include the word "please" in a line of code but it never helps. This list and it's helpful members have been a requirement for everything I have managed to do. More to the point, applications programmers provide vastly different commands and classes for their commercial software because they don't have the politically correct rapport with the dialect.
It remains nearly impossible to uncover the "raw" commands for interprocess communication from a typical AppleScript "dictionary". It would be far simpler to document them than to come up with "natural English" sentences that mean the same to everyone. Even the framers of the second amendment couldn't get that right.
Let's set up an Obfuscated AppleScript award to compete with C and perl.
--
Applescript syntax is like English spelling:
Roughly, but not thoroughly, thought through.
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