Macintosh Scripting
Macintosh Scripting
- Subject: Macintosh Scripting
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:42:41 -0700
On Tuesday, Sep 17, 2002, at 14:33 US/Pacific, Reinhold Penner wrote:
...I really think that the "do shell script" command has essentially
killed most of AppleScript's own commands. I just use AS for script
flow inbetween DSC commands.
I'd just like to comment that it might be more appropriate for Apple to
change the name of this list to something like "Macintosh Scripting"
since we now have so many more possibilities. Although I generally
agree with the AppleScript purists that applications should strive to
fit into AppleScript object model, when another scripting facility
presents a cleaner solution for a particular problem, there's no sense
grinding through a 50 line AppleScript to do the same thing.
For example Tcl list sorting dusts the overly verbose AppleScript and
Perl solutions previously submitted:
lsort -dictionary $list
As Reinhold observes, AppleScript's strong card on OS X is that it
allows us to mix-n-match.
Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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