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: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 01:39:35 -0500
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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.
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Rudimentary? It is minimalist, yes, and perhaps obsolete for many
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purposes, but it spawned C++, which is more than adequate. And languages
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like Perl, which are obviously extremely useful and practical, use
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similar syntax.
C++ is the worst attempt at an object oriented language ever done, and is
only adequate because C is a decent enough language.
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I'm honestly curious about what you find illogical about C, or what you
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hate about it. I've found it blissfully simple and logical, and easy to
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read. The lack of visual delimiters like parentheses and braces in
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AppleScript makes it very difficult for me to read.
It's overly simple, it allows you to do too many stupid things, and it's not
designed to do what AppleScript does. The fact that so many high level
languages emulate the syntax of a low level language doesn't make it a good
scripting language.
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> I also find that most
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> problems with applescript can be solved by testing other tools.
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What precisely do you mean?
I mean, use a better scripting tool.
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Perhaps the fact that I'm much better versed in C, and Perl than
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AppleScript has made me prejudiced, but there's also the fact that I
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learned most of what I know about C in a 2-month period, while what
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little I know of AppleScript has taken years to sink in.
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Perhaps it is a clash between my style of thinking and AppleScript's,
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but I've never found another language that took as long to comprehend.
Or you keep expecting it to be something it's not. My experience with
AppleScript was the inverse...took about a month to get it, and it's been
great ever since. C was/is/will always be painful to deal with.
john
--
"It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep."
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