Re: AppleScript Analysis
Re: AppleScript Analysis
- Subject: Re: AppleScript Analysis
- From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:11:00 -0700
Entity Ian James spoke thus:
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Everybody wants a simple intuitive language for house cleaning chores.
Huh? You want a language for loading the dishwasher?
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Neither a programmer or a novice can figure out applescript quickly.
That's because it's so damnably flexible.
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It is not intuitive and the dictionaries supplied are really amateurish.
There isn't any real dictionary for a language so similar to English.
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I believe the solution is ... stop trying to make applescript "just
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like english",
Well, that's what gives it it's charm. It's not like every other programming
language. You complaint is typical of someone on their first year of
Applescript.
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and fully document the commands in each dictionary.
You'd be surprised what you can extract from the "dictionary" once you treat
it like the perverse language it is!
Hope that makes sense . . .
-- Rachel
http://www.Spectrumology.com
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