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 15:29:07 -0500
On 01/26/2003 12:05, "Randal L. Schwartz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At least in Perl scripting or Shell scripting, the control flow is
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entirely within the control of the language designer, and the data in
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shell scripts is strictly untyped strings, and data in Perl is
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well-documented in one source maintained lockstep with changes in the
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language. If only AppleScript could be that well done...
The problem is, those language are not designed for the same stuff. You may
use Shell to link apps together, but not at the same complexity as you will
with AppleScript. Perl is a text processor. It doesn't have to deal with the
vagaries of everything from Photoshop to FileMaker to netOctopus. They are
both designed to work with a fairly limited set of OS Services, or inputs.
AppleScript has to work with, well, anything with a dictionary. It's great,
but sometimes, the people writing the dictionaries don't do a very good job.
I don't know if VBA has the same issues, but it's a far better comparison to
AS than either Perl or Shell.
john
--
"We ain't making no goddamn corn flakes here."
Col. Charlie Beckwith, founder of Delta Force
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