Re: "=" is equal to ...
Re: "=" is equal to ...
- Subject: Re: "=" is equal to ...
- From: Ken Grimm <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 15:15:28 -0600
On 3/12/03 4:21 PM, Dave Stewart at email@hidden didst forever and
always commit to the digital human communication archive:
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It's amazing how many
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examples are written with "is equal to" and my first thought when I
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encountered that was "You've got to be kidding! I want a program, not a
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novel! What's wrong with "="?"
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I'm still convinced that AppleScript was written by someone who wanted
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to punish scripters by wearing their keyboards out with excessively
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verbose junk like this (at least there's a "workaround"), but maybe
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that's just my C showing. ;-)
I am one of those verbose "junk" writers and make no apologies for it. I do
not share the sentiment of somehow I am being "punished."
I am the only person at my property that deals with AppleScript. We employ
no other employees where programming is part of their job description. We
don't need to.
With that in mind, I purposely write code that I try to make as easily
understood by the audience that will be reading it
people that have never
seen code in their life, but *have* to make adjustments to it to meet a
deadline in an unexpected situation. It is verbose and heavily commented.
That happened recently. I had to undergo unexpected major surgery that put
me out of commission for 9 months. During that time we changed web size on
our press, and many production scripts had to be changed to accommodate
that.
My boss opened up my scripts, and easily found the parameters that need to
be changed. He was able to, with ZERO programming background, go into an
AppleScript, read it, understand it, make changes and go on with life. He
told me it took him less than half a day to change 20 scripts.
That episode was total vindication for me. For all the hard work I put into
evangelizing AppleScript here. For writing code in that manner. The whole
schtick about AppleScript being easy to understand and read by
non-programmers was realized in a very dramatic fashion.
That day, AppleScript won. Big time. Because it was NOT written, as Nick put
it, as "a bunch of punctuation that passes for code."
Ken
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