Re: Code for a circle
Re: Code for a circle
- Subject: Re: Code for a circle
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 22:03:19 +0000
- Mac-eudora-version: 6.0a11
At 9:36 pm +0100 13/3/03, Helmut Fuchs wrote:
If AppleScript had proper math functions on board, this should be
easy to implement. But it hasn't. I still don't grasp why a
scripting language has to rely on additions to do trigonometric
functions (and even something as basic as rounding a number has to
be added by way of "Standard Additions"). Probably because it
wouldn't be AppleScript, if it was feature complete and devoid of
bugs...
Well core Applescript may be a bit short of features, but the lack of
features available in general is due not to a fault of Applescript
but to a shortage of people coming forward to write extensions to it.
To get Frontier to do trig you need to install an extension and to
get perl to do anything really fancy with trig you need to go out and
get a library. It's just a question of degree. What makes perl so
powerful is not only the genius at the heart of it and the standard
libraries but the multitude of stuff available in CPAN, all written
by "third parties". The commitment's never been there in Applescript.
I can't remember if there was a trig osax and I'm pretty sure there's
not one for OS 10, but the great thing about the new era is that we
can now tap into the power of the shell and perl and python from
Applescript, and that means, on the other hand, that there is even
less need for people to write extensions.
JD
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