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 10:23:35 -0500
On 01/26/2003 05:38, "Michael Kelly" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
Perhaps. My main gripes, however, are about the syntax, the philosophy
>
of throwing fatal errors for relatively minor problems (forcing lots of
>
'try' blocks), and Apple's neglect of the language (bugs!).
Um...try reading a release note? They fix bugs every release, some are
easier to deal with than others. And I'd rather see errors that stop
execution, than just blindly go on because nothing bad enough to crash the
application or the OS has happened yet.
AppleScript is also complicated by the fact that application teams are
responsible for their own apps. The core AS team can't make the iSync team
or the FCP team put in a dictionary, no matter HOW obviously stupid it is
not to.
>
>
Ultimately I should probably just spend more time tied to a computer
>
forcing myself to work with AppleScript rather than ranting about it :)
Maybe
john
--
My mom is a professional botanist, or, as her spousal equivalent described
it, they'll be out hiking in the woods, she'll see a plant off by the side
of the trail, run up to it, bend down, and start talking Latin at it.
-- Steve VanDevender
_______________________________________________
applescript-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives:
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.