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: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:54:42 -0800
- Mail-followup-to: AppleScript List <email@hidden>
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:35:46PM -0500, John C. Welch wrote:
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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.
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That's only if you 'get' C syntax. I managed to slog through it for school,
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but hated every second of it. I found it so rudimentary as to be useless for
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anything other than pedal to the metal programming.
Rudimentary? It is minimalist, yes, and perhaps obsolete for many
purposes, but it spawned C++, which is more than adequate. And languages
like Perl, which are obviously extremely useful and practical, use
similar syntax.
I'm honestly curious about what you find illogical about C, or what you
hate about it. I've found it blissfully simple and logical, and easy to
read. The lack of visual delimiters like parentheses and braces in
AppleScript makes it very difficult for me to read.
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I also find that most
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problems with applescript can be solved by testing other tools.
What precisely do you mean?
Perhaps the fact that I'm much better versed in C, and Perl than
AppleScript has made me prejudiced, but there's also the fact that I
learned most of what I know about C in a 2-month period, while what
little I know of AppleScript has taken years to sink in.
Perhaps it is a clash between my style of thinking and AppleScript's,
but I've never found another language that took as long to comprehend.
--
Michael
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http://www.jedimike.net/
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