Re: [OT] AppleScript scripts versus Shell scripts
Re: [OT] AppleScript scripts versus Shell scripts
- Subject: Re: [OT] AppleScript scripts versus Shell scripts
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:35:46 -0500
On 01/22/2003 22:31, "Michael Kelly" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Not as easy to understand as AppleScript? I beg to differ. Perl's syntax
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is quite logical, extremely well documented, and conspicuously lacking
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in bugs (unlike some other languages). AppleScript's attempt at using an
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"English-like" syntax has made it tremendously complicated; more so than
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C-based languages like Perl, in my opinion.
That's only if you 'get' C syntax. I managed to slog through it for school,
but hated every second of it. I found it so rudimentary as to be useless for
anything other than pedal to the metal programming. I also find that most
problems with applescript can be solved by testing other tools.
john
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