Re: [OT] AppleScript scripts versus Shell scripts
Re: [OT] AppleScript scripts versus Shell scripts
- Subject: Re: [OT] AppleScript scripts versus Shell scripts
- From: Michael Kelly <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:38:23 -0800
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:38:18AM -0800, Michael Sullivan wrote:
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The difference is that I can get things done in Perl in record time,
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whereas Applescript (I'm a newbie) takes me forever.
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>
Why?
[snip (no documentation)]
*unlurk*
I agree! Another story to ponder:
Just yesterday I discovered how powerful M$ Word's VB scripting is --
the app seems to have a whole VB compiler built in. And guess what comes
along with it? Documentation. Good documentation. Understandable
documentation. (Note that I'm not saying anything positive about the
language itself. Just the documentation.)
I'm no lover of Microsoft, but Apple has something to learn from their
arch-rival.
Apple has frankly frustrated me out of using AppleScript unless it's
absolutely necessary (and once I learn how to send AppleEvents directly
with a documented, logical language like C or C++, I'll never have to
look at AppleScript again).
In reference to the original question: Doug's absolutely right.
AppleScript only wins in areas where it has no similar competition.
Sorry to keep posting negative messages like this, but I feel they're
perfectly justified. Apologies to those who feel they're not.
--
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
print <<'_SIG_';
Michael
email@hidden
http://www.jedimike.net/
_SIG_
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