Re: Perl or AppleScript ?
Re: Perl or AppleScript ?
- Subject: Re: Perl or AppleScript ?
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:20:45 -0500
On 03/17/2003 16:09, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> perhaps you need a mail client with decent filtering ;-))
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Nah, I'd rather glance at them along the way. They sometimes have a good
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joke. I could easily filter them out, as I'm sure you know.
Especially on this list, you miss so much with filters...
Jon Pugh's humor, and i now make sure that i'm not drinking anything when i
read his posts.
Every once in a while, Chris E. saying something that reminds you of just
how long he's been at Apple.
Chris N. with the odd achingly dry comment.
John D., whom, even when he's wrong is still trying to make things work
better.
Bill B., who just has a knack for timing.
Michelle, who, (to me at least) gets to the point of things very quickly.
Paul B., who I finally was able to meet at MacWorld this year, and who is
really a fascinating person. (How can you not be impressed down to your toes
by a scripting teacher of music?)
Even the flame wars on this list are...well...different. Maybe it's because
they are all about the same thing in the end. I've not often seen a targeted
mailing list that has people shouting because they want this thing they work
in to be better. Not a little better either. That's very cool, by the way.
Especially when you think about the people here who have been pushing
AppleScript from literally the beginning.
I know there are other languages, and at times i've looked at them. I've
done large scale RAD development on all sorts of platforms. One day, i'll
finish that last class for my degree, (or not. I find of late that I
understand, albeit for different reasons, why people sometimes throw
computers in the trash and go become a park ranger, or a martial arts
teacher.) but I think that for as long as AppleScript exists, and doesn't
suck, I'll stick with it.
It fits me, like a pair of Levi's 501s that you bought deep blue and stiff
as a board, and were uncomfortable forever, until one day, you pull them out
of the wash, and they just fit you so perfectly, that you wanted six more
pair just like them.
I've not found any other language that I like enough to become good with
beyond getting some very specific task done. Yet AppleScript sits on my
machine, and, to paraphrase Andy Ihnatko, challenges me to "The Glorious
Pursuit of the Stupid".
Never got that from C.
john
--
A leader is a man who had the ability to get other people to do what they
don't want to do, and like it.
- Harry S. Truman
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