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: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:09:17 -0800
- Mail-followup-to: AppleScript List <email@hidden>
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:51:30PM -0500, John C. Welch wrote:
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On 01/26/2003 20:15, "Randal L. Schwartz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> The beauty of it is, Perl doesn't need every program to add stuff just
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> to get it to work with Perl. Perl uses the standard Unix interfaces
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> to provide controlled input, parse the output, and manage the starting
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> and stopping of processes.
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Yep...i/o control. That's all. AppleScript operates at a very different
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level, because it's *designed to do different things.* which is why the
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comparisons between AppleScript and Perl are *dumb*.
AS and Perl have the same objective, though they do it in different
ways. Perl's way is less demanding on the language itself, the
application developer, and the programmer.
AS's inconsistencies are partially forgivable due to the fact that it
does in fact do much more, but that does not change the fact that it's
perplexing to those used to the nice uniform, logical, efficient world
of Perl. This is not made any better by the dearth of _up-to-date_
documentation from Apple and the developers.
I agree with Jon, though. Let's give this up. Perl and AS do the same
thing in different ways, and us lucky OS X folks can get the best (or
worst) of both worlds.
--
Michael
email@hidden
http://www.jedimike.net/
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