Re: Adobe's lousy AppleScript implementations
Re: Adobe's lousy AppleScript implementations
- Subject: Re: Adobe's lousy AppleScript implementations
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:05:15 +1000
On 29/9/02 9:11 PM +1000, has, email@hidden, wrote:
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Your resizeFrontWindow() example would suggest it's doing the very thing I
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explained how to avoid: [...], reducing flexibility and reuse, and increasing
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overall system complexity. Which is to miss the whole point, sorry.
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Interesting to speculate how the point might have been missed. I suspect its
lack of flexibility ("it should - no, *must*", "not one word more",) and
overall complexity might have something to do with it.
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BTW, I'm reading this at the moment:
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<http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~mik/papers/oo-languages.pdf>, which talks of the
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difficulty in transitioning practised procedural programmers-thinkers to
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OOD/OOP, and how to solve it (basically, by starting with OO in the first
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place). Good stuff, makes a lot of sense.
Actually, that sentence -- that the solution to the difficulty of
"transitioning" people who think one way to think another is to start them
with another way in the first place -- is a fine example of something that
makes no sense at all. If you are dealing with people who are "practised",
then starting them out with some other way first is, by definition,
impossible.
--
Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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