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Re: [OT] AppleScript scripts versus Shell scripts
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Re: [OT] AppleScript scripts versus Shell scripts


  • Subject: Re: [OT] AppleScript scripts versus Shell scripts
  • From: Michael Kelly <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:16:07 -0800
  • Mail-followup-to: email@hidden

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:25:25PM +0100, Philippe GRUCHET wrote:
> From: Michael Kelly <email@hidden>
> >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.
> I agree, but some substantial examples for the - 'do shell script'
> command - would be the welcome, as starting blocks at least.
> None of the "Script Editor Scripts" provided with SE2 contains a 'do
> shell script' command.

Perhaps... one or two good examples and a pointer to find the real
(in-depth) documentation.

[snip]
> >... 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.
> You seem to be very frustrated about the lack of documentation
> concerning the AppleScript language.

Yes, I suppose that comes across rather strongly :)

> Many of us have learned (or being to learn) this language:
>
> 1) From the Apple's documentation:
>
> AppleScript Language Guide (415 pages)
> For AppleScript 1.3.7
> May 5, 1999
>
> AppleScript Finder Guide (161 pages)
>
> AppleScript Scripting Additions Guide (130 pages)

AHA! I knew about the Language Guide, but I had never heard of the other
two. I'll definitely have to check these out. Thank you!

[snip]
> >...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.
>
> Oh, yes, it's a very important and interesting opinion: coming from
> C-based languages, AppleScript appears as an exotic language.
> I remember this reaction about Lingo, the proprietary language of
> Director: exotic.

I suppose it is this "exoticness" that's causing me so much grief in
learning the language. I can't grok anything without braces and
parens. :)

[snip]

--
Michael
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http://www.jedimike.net/
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