Re: AppleScript / Perl comparison
Re: AppleScript / Perl comparison
- Subject: Re: AppleScript / Perl comparison
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 07:26:55 -0700
At 07:00a -0600 05/24/2004, Doug McNutt didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
A simple AppleScript wrapper to a shell script makes a drag and drop
application.
Yes; I've done exactly that (with a very intelligent AS wrapper).
AS+Perl makes a powerful combination.
There are things you can do with Perl that you cannot do with AppleScript.
There are things you can do with AppleScript that you cannot do with Perl.
On OS X, you can do all of them, because the languages can connect.
"Do I want to eat fruits or vegetables?"
Both are good for you; however, they serve different purposes.
I just hope that someday we'll be able to call Perl from within AS
without the delay that 'do shell script' currently introduces.
(Chris?)
-boo
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