Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
- Subject: Re: Nice Automator article on O'Reilly
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 14:11:39 +0100
Randal L. Schwartz wrote::
>has> 2. Bless Python and PHP as the ways to go for professional,
>has> semi-professional and ambitious-amateur development.
>
>Perl already has Mac::Glue and friends to talk OSA to the rest of the
>system. Might be a simpler starting point, at least to get things
>going.
More importantly, it also has extensive Cocoa bindings (e.g. CamelBones), IDEs, vast library support and other essentials for serious web and desktop application development.
However, Perl is a true hacker's language at heart - and that means that for every developer who loves it there's at least one other who absolutely can't stand it. Say what you like about VB as a language, but as a means of putting developer bums on Windows seats it's been a phenomenal success. It's this pragmatic magnetism that Apple needs to replicate on OS X, and for all its many virtues Perl simply isn't "middle-of-the-road" enough to be a good "officially approved" VB-equivalent platform.
PHP and Python are much more conventional, conservative languages, and that means they'll have good general appeal across a much broader audience. So I'm not knocking Perl in any way, it's just that it's not the most appropriate tool in this particular case. Remember, it's not about which OSS language is teh l33t, it's about which can kick ol' VB's arse the hardest. <g>
Cheers,
has
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