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: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:31:27 -0800
- Mail-followup-to: AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:31:07AM +0100, Philippe GRUCHET wrote:
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I wrote:
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>I'd like to know what is the observed difference in speed when using
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>an AppleScript script and the same in Shell language?
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Thank you very much for all your feedbacks about this issue.
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Many of you said that AppleScript language is not so well-documented
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than Perl language.
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That's right, we can find many books about Perl. (On the web too.)
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However, there is no documentation, no example, no tutorial about Perl
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in the Apple Developer Tools, nor on the Apple website.
If you want Perl documentation, there are plenty of places to get it
other than from Apple. For Apple to document Perl would be like
Microsoft documenting PHP -- it would be redundant, and there would be
no logical reason for it.
Although this might seem like yet another shot at Apple, I will add that
Apple seems to have a tremendous aversion to documentation of any kind,
as they don't document their own language, let alone someone else's.
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And Perl is not so easy to understand cause of its unusual and very
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compact syntax.
Not as easy to understand as AppleScript? I beg to differ. Perl's syntax
is quite logical, extremely well documented, and conspicuously lacking
in bugs (unlike some other languages). AppleScript's attempt at using an
"English-like" syntax has made it tremendously complicated; more so than
C-based languages like Perl, in my opinion.
The Perl one-liners displayed in all too many .sigs are about as good of
examples of the language as the results of the C Obfuscation Contest are
of C.
I could go on and on, but I've vented far too much on this list already.
--
Michael, who will try to be more positive in the future... hah...
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http://www.jedimike.net/
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